[Bioperl-l] Automatic download of bioperl from git

[Scott Cain]

Hi All,

Thanks for pointing out the links.  It's weird: using curl on those
urls retrieves a "redirect" page, whereas LWP::Simple::mirror gets the
tarball.  Anyway, the script works again :-)

Scott


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Dave Messina <David.Messina at sbc.su.se> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I think the URLs you want are these
>
>        http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Getting_BioPerl#Snapshots
>
> snapshots of the current repository.
>
>
> If you want instead to grab a static version of a repository, say a tagged revision, you can do like this:
>
> http://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/tarball/for_gmod_0_003
>
> (where "for_gmod_0_003" is the tag).
>
>
> By the way, I am getting these URLs on GitHub by:
>
> 1.  going to the GitHub page for the relevant repository
>
>        e.g. http://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live
>
> 2.  navigating to the tag or branch of interest using the "Switch Branches" or "Switch Tags" pulldowns
>
> 3.  clicking on the Download Source button
>
> 4.  right-clicking on the big TAR icon to copy the link underlying it
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>



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