[EMBOSS] EMBOSS website and download

[Peter Rice]

Hi Hamish,

We will see what we can do to list mirrors. We will need a way to check 
they remain up to date, but it is a good way to know whoi is maintaining 
their copies and to get feedback from them.

regards,

Peter Rice
EMBOSS Team

On 14/07/2016 10:40, Hamish McWilliam wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The EMBOSS mirror at EMBL-EBI:
>
> ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/EMBOSS/
>
> Is mirrored from the Open-bio site and thus replicates its content, even
> if it is older releases. The updated release posted yesterday afternoon
> was replicated this morning.
>
> In the past I have used the patched distributions provided by Debian
> when really stuck, for example:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/emboss
>
> See the tarballs under the "Download Source Package emboss" on the right.
>
> For those who prefer RPMs a check on rpmfind.net <http://rpmfind.net>
> reveals that Fedora includes EMBOSS 6.6.0, so the source RPM from there
> would likely do or the archived tarballs:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/EMBOSS/
>
> As would the distribution archive used by
> FreeBSD: http://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/distfiles/emboss/
>
> As noted in a previous thread it would be useful to see a list of
> mirrors on the EMBOSS web pages so users have options when the main site
> is misbehaving.
>
> All the best,
>
> Hamish
>
>
> On 13 July 2016 at 14:24, Hervé MENAGER <herve.menager at pasteur.fr
> <mailto:herve.menager at pasteur.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you so much Peter. Please keep us updated :)
>     Best regards,
>     Hervé
>
>     ________________________________________
>     De : Peter Rice <ricepeterm at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:ricepeterm at yahoo.co.uk>>
>     Envoyé : mercredi 13 juillet 2016 15:22
>     À : Hervé  MENAGER; Peter Cock
>     Cc : EMBOSS at mailman.open-bio.org <mailto:EMBOSS at mailman.open-bio.org>
>     Objet : Re: [EMBOSS] EMBOSS website and download
>
>     Hi Herve,
>
>     We need to fix up a few things on emboss.open-bio.org
>     <http://emboss.open-bio.org> which reverted to
>     older versions, and worse with the EMBOSS distribution file missing. I
>     have some free time now to take a look (finally got another software
>     release out of the way).
>
>     There was a mirror at EBI but they have overwritten it.
>
>     I will let you (and the list) know when I have it uploaded again.
>
>     regards,
>
>     Peter Rice
>     EMBOSS Team
>
>     On 07/13/16 12:22, Hervé  MENAGER wrote:
>     > Thank you Peter,
>     > Indeed emboss.open-bio.org <http://emboss.open-bio.org> is alive,
>     and that is good news. But I can't find 6.6.0 on it :(
>     > Would you happen to know if it is hosted somewhere else now, or am
>     I just looking with the wrong place?
>     > Hervé
>     > ________________________________________
>     > De : Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>>
>     > Envoyé : mercredi 13 juillet 2016 12:44
>     > À : Hervé  MENAGER
>     > Cc : EMBOSS at mailman.open-bio.org <mailto:EMBOSS at mailman.open-bio.org>
>     > Objet : Re: [EMBOSS] EMBOSS website and download
>     >
>     > Hi Hervé,
>     >
>     > The http://emboss.sourceforge.net address is also down.
>     > It looks like a temporary outage at SourceForge:
>     >
>     > "The sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net> website is
>     temporarily in static offline mode.
>     > Only a very limited set of project pages are available until the main
>     > website returns to service."
>     >
>     > Some good news, http://emboss.open-bio.org is live.
>     >
>     > Peter
>     >
>     > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Hervé  MENAGER
>     > <herve.menager at pasteur.fr <mailto:herve.menager at pasteur.fr>> wrote:
>     >> Dear EMBOSS maintainers,
>     >>
>     >> I cannot access the EMBOSS sourceforge website today, it seems to
>     have
>     >> disapeared (emboss.sf.net <http://emboss.sf.net>). Has the
>     website been migrated somewhere else, or
>     >> is it a technical issue?
>     >>
>     >> Cheers,
>     >>
>     >> Hervé
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
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