[Bioperl-l] Automatic download of bioperl from git

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Scott Cain <scott at scottcain.net> wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
>
Hi, Scott.

For curl, try:

curl -L ....

The -L follows redirects.

Sean


>
> 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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