Re: [KMC + asmlib] KMC Debian package progress

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Jorge,

thanks for your investigation.  Just a quick response:

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 05:00:27PM +0000, Jorge Sebastião Soares wrote:
> 
> Anywa, I understand that this performance increase might mean a lot to you,
> but our group here at the Sanger and Debian can definitely live with the
> native implementation.

+1

> Since the author of asmlib is taking a while to reply, our suggestion would
> be to package KMC in one of two ways:
> 
> 1- an implementation on your side which allows KMC to be built without
> using asmlib; (preferred);

+1

> 2- using the compilation that does not use asmlib at all (which can be done
> on my side, as a code patch, at package creation time).
> 
> This would make the packaging job slightly easier and faster and would
> allow me to reach my goal. Packaging the virus assembler written by my
> colleague here at the Sanger.

>From my perspective this sounds like a sensible goal to get KMC as soon
as possible into Debian to tackle your final goal.  If you can approach
this easier by a version without asmlib (which you somehow created
according to your performance check) I'd support this.

> If/when Agner (author of KMC) replies we can always package asmlib and
> state it as a dependency for the KMC package.

+1
 
Thanks for your work on this

       Andreas.

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