[Biojava-l] Sample compilation requirement

[John Ling]

Thanks.

I was using the following version:
http://biojava.org/download/source/biojava-1.22.tar.gz

John

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Thomas Down wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:16:15AM -0400, John Ling wrote:
> > I was able to run the tutorial version properly only after I additionally
> > added the jakarta-regexp.jar to the classpath.
> > 
> > The only real difference I can see between the demo versions is that the
> > tutorial version uses SeqIOTools.readFastaDNA(br).
> > 
> > What is jakarta-regexp.jar used for and why does SeqIOTools.readFastaDNA
> > rely on it?  I thought jakarta-regexp.jar was only used for ANT during the
> > package building process.
> 
> Are you using a CVS version or snapshot of BioJava?  Recent versions
> include some `format guessing' code in SeqIOTools, which relies on
> the regexp library.  This dependancy wasn't there in 1.2 (unless some
> 1.3-only code managed to creep onto the 1.2 branch).
> 
> > If it is required to include jakarta-regexp.jar in the classpath, then
> > perhaps this requirement could be documented in "Getting started" section
> > of the documentation.
> 
> Added this now.
> 
>     Thomas.
>