Re: Embassy phylipnew - please use freely licensed source of phylip
Hi Peter,
are there any news about a new EMBASSY version. At least a new version of
embassy-phylip featuring the free version would be really helpful.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 08:17:14AM +0100, Peter Rice wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Yes, that is high on my list of things to do ... but top of the list is
> restoring EMBOSS websites that are currently being moved around within
> open-bio. Once that is done all the EMBASSY packages need a review and
> several need updating. Phylipnew can be first as it is usually the simplest
> to do.
>
> regards,
>
> Peter Rice
> EMBOSS Team
>
> On 27/07/2016 07:05, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >Hi Peter,
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:34:21PM +0100, Peter Rice wrote:
> >>This was a restoration of the 6.6.0 release files which had been lost when
> >>the FTP server was reset, and a correction of the file names which should
> >>have been .660 on the original FTP server.
> >
> >Thanks for the clarification. However, do you see any chance to fetch
> >the new phylip sources which are not really different from the old ones
> >except they now have a free license. I'd even volunteer to assemble a
> >new tarball containing the new sources and do the needed patching if
> >somebody would check this and do an official release.
> >
> >>The same applies to the other EMBASSY packages.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >>regards,
> >>
> >>Peter Rice
> >>EMBOSS Team
> >>
> >>On 25/07/2016 10:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I realised that at the EMBASSY download ftpserver[1] files with new
> >>>version numbers appeared. I was specifically keen to check PHYLIPNEW
> >>>since I wanted to release a Debian package with the freely licensed
> >>>phylip. Unfortunately I realised that PHYLIPNEW-3.69.660.tar.gz is byte
> >>>identical to PHYLIPNEW-3.69.650.tar.gz - so no change in the source code
> >>>has happened at all.
> >>>
> >>>I wonder whether this is by mistake or what the version rename might
> >>>mean here. It would be really great if you could base the code on
> >>>version 3.696 of phylip since this version has a free license and could
> >>>be distributed in Debian main.
> >>>
> >>>Kind regards
> >>>
> >>> Andreas.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>[1] ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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