[Bioperl-l] problems getting 1.2 tarball

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jason Stajich wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Brian Osborne wrote:
>
> > Ewan,
> >
> > This proposal to install scripts with PLS suffixes into $SCRIPT_INSTALL/ on
> > 'make install' is not mine, though it makes sense to me. I believe it's
> > Jason's and Lincoln's idea, though others may have discussed it as well.
> >
> Lincoln's idea - he does this in GBrowse - this allows the user upon
> install install to set the
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w to be whatever the system value is
> (/mount/osf1/bin/perl or whatever) and install these ready-to-go scripts
> in the PREFIX/bin just like how LWP installs GET,POST scripts .

aha. Cool.

>
> I think it is a good idea as we push for more utility scripts - I am
> putting the general purpose ones that I have written in scripts/utilities,
> I am not totally sure we are going to be able to come up with the
> appropriate directory naming scheme to localize all of these into (i.e.
> graphics, database searching, etc) so I just have thrown in my general
> purpose ones into the utility for lack of better ideas.
>

Right. I tested and fixed a few (many worked fine without any
modification) but I guess we need to make sure that they work each time -
part of the release process.