[MOBY-dev] buggy new biomoby release

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Rebecca,

The CVS version certainly wont work (as I noted on the list last week).  
The link to 0.8.2 was wrong, as you say - sorry about that!  The 0.8.2 
version should work, however, as I set it up on a completely virgin 
machine (the current MOBY Central public server) immediately before 
making the release and it worked perfectly...?  Can you be more specific 
with your error report?

v.v. the LSID libraries - it is possible that the requirement for the 
LSID libraries is in a "use" statement somewhere, but it definitely 
isn't a real requirement for the 0.8.2 code.  If you see a "use" in 
there, or in the makefile, that is an error for sure.

Can you tell me exactly what errors you were seeing?

Cheers!

M



Rebecca Ernst wrote:

> Hi Mark (and rest)!
>
> As suggested Dirk and I sat down today to do a cvs update to get the 
> last stable release.
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> 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! :-))
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> There are several problems keeping us from updating our code:
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> 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 VERY outdated and not functional (e.g.it uses DOM instead of LibXML)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)
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> So luckily we could rescue everything because of our save but I guess 
> this is not the way to make people happy installing BioMoby :-(
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> 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 ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Rebecca
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