Re: header package for samtools

[Afif Elghraoui <afif@ghraoui.name>]

Hi, Charles,

على الأربعاء 23 كانون الأول 2015 ‫19:41، كتب Charles Plessy:
> Le Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 07:00:25PM -0800, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
>>
>> Specifically, I was looking to package lofreq [1], but it requires the
>> samtools headers and its static library libbam.a, expecting users to
>> have a compiled copy of the source distribution for samtools.
> 
> for the works that expect libbam.a and legacy samtools headers, we still
> distribute the libbam-dev package, from the samtools-legacy package.
> 

lofreq requires at least samtools 1.1. I did try using the libbam-dev
package for this, but it wasn't compatible.

In any case, I think there is a similar situation with pysam and the
samtools R-bindings, but that they just distribute code copies.

What do you think?

Afif

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