[MOBY-dev] buggy new biomoby release

[Rebecca Ernst]

Hi Mark (and rest)!

As suggested Dirk and I sat down today to do a cvs update to get the 
last stable release.

Now it's 5 hours later and we gave up and switched back to the last 
working code we had (and which we luckily saved before doing the update! 
:-))

There are several problems keeping us from updating our code:

First of all the links on the release site (biomoby.org/releases) are 
crappy. The link to biomoby.0.8.2 links to biomoby.0.8.1 we didn't 
notice this and therefore received the older version. This version is 
VERY outdated and not functional (e.g.it uses DOM instead of LibXML)

Then we modified the link to get 0.8.2. This version is also not 
functional as it uses lsid (although this was meant to be the version 
BEFORE the lsid change). Even when we added a column lsid to the 
database it didn't work (I guess one would also need the lsid resolver 
and so on.)

Another try was to do an cvs update which crashed everything as 
completely buggy and syntactical wrong code was checked in (especially 
in Adaptor/.../mysql.pm)


So luckily we could rescue everything because of our save but I guess 
this is not the way to make people happy installing BioMoby :-(

Could we please make sure that releases are functional and the code in 
the cvs is not complete crap.... otherwise I'll have to do some more 
spanking ;-)


Cheers,
Rebecca






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Rebecca Ernst
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