Re: Usage of zlib in MaqView
Hello Andreas,
Many thanks for considering to port maqview to Debian Med. Unfortunately, I am afraid that for maqview we have to include those private zlib headers because maqview must use very low-level zlib structs and functions in order to achieve random access in a generic gzip file.
At the same time, although maqview still has a few features that even the most modern viewers are missing, it is not the best any more (for example, IGV, which has been ported to Debian Med, is more generic and better). If you have difficulty in porting maqview, you may consider not to include maqview in Debian Med. This would be unfortunate for us, but we are unable to drop the dependency. I am sorry.
Best wishes,
Heng
On Nov 19, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med project that has the goal to
> provide medical and bioinformatical software to all Debian users. I hope
> you like the attempt to include MaqView into Debian amongst other packages
> as they are listed here
>
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio
>
> Because I had a request to package MaqView and have started inspecting
> the code. When doing so I noticed that you are using inside zrio.h the
> header files
>
> #include "zutil.h"
> #include "inftrees.h"
> #include "inflate.h"
>
> according to the top remark in these files
>
> this file should *not* be used by applications. It is
> part of the implementation of the compression library and is
> subject to change. Applications should only use zlib.h.
>
> this is not the purpose of these files. I'm asking because in Debian
> the packaged zlib library should be used with applications. This is for
> consistency and security reasons.
>
> My question is: Could you imagine to find a solution which properly uses
> only zlib.h as it was intended by the zlib authors for future releases
> of MaqView?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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