Hi Andreas, the issue with shogun & debian currently is that it requires ~3.5GB of memory to compile for some of its interfaces. Build bots where choking on this so I have no idea what to do about it. That is the reason I gave up getting a current version into wheezy. So it is not a good idea to more forcefully depend on this package currently. IMHO the most useful is the python_modular interface but surely it depends on which language one is used to / wants to use. I don't recommend to use any of the static interfaces nowadays (very limited feature subset / functionality). It certainly is one of the more popular ML toolkits. Back in academia I did a couple of tools with it that might still be state-of-the-art, like asp (a splice site detector) and arts (a human tss detector). Best, Soeren On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 14:32 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Sören, > > I stumbles about your blog post > > http://sonnenburgs.de/soeren/category/blog/#shogun-toolbox-days-2013 > > and thus came across the binary packages createt from source package > shogun. I admit (as an bioinformatics outsider) I do not fully > understand the purpose of all binaries but to my perception the packages > > libshogun-dev > shogun-cmdline-static > shogun-csharp-modular > shogun-java-modular > shogun-lua-modular > shogun-python-modular > shogun-python-static ? > shogun-r-static > shogun-ruby-modular > > would fit into the task oriented at developers of bioinformatics > applications med-bio-dev. > > It also seems that the "eierlegendewollmilchsau package" (do non German > speakers really understand this term?) > > shogun-elwms-static > > is the binary package targeting at users and thus should be mentioned in > med-bio as a more user (rather than developer) oriented task. > > I'm also not sure whether we should apply a stronger relation > (=Recommends) or if SHOGUN is rather scratching a borderline field in > bioinformatics and thus should be rather only suggested. Please be > so kind and visit > > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio-dev and > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio > > to see what is currently listed there to give a reasonable > recommendation. Sorry if my question sounds a bit naive but we try to > assemble all packages relevant for bioinformatics and sometimes the > needed knowledge to draw a proper decision needs to be gathered > carefully. > > Thanks for developing shogun and also creating the Debian packages > > Andreas. > -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
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