Re: Plink2 (Was: Bug#771154: plink: New major upstream version of plink)
Hi Dylan,
the reason why I did not answered is that I'm finally no plink user and
thus feel incompetent for a sensible hint here. In any case I have put
the item "name space pollution" on my agenda for the upcoming Debian Med
sprint[2]. (BTW, are there any more people interested in joining the
sprint? This is a really good oportunity to learn to know each other
and strengthen cooperation.)
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 07:47:50AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> I'm not very happy with the rename of the binary to "plink2" for this
> version. I speak with upstream about this [1] and he suggest me to not
> rename plink 1.9 to "plink2" because the real plink 2 will break more
> things and will be distributed under the "plink2" name.
>
> So the options are:
> 1. Stay with the rename to "plink2" for the version 1.9. But with possible
> breaks when the real plink2 will be released.
This could be carefully documented to warn users.
> 2. As suggest by upstream, stay with "p-link" for the version 1.9 with a
> Breaks or Conflicts field in d/control for the plink 1.07. Not possible to
> use both versions (1.07 and 1.9) at the same time, so not ideal to
> replicate results obtained from plink 1.07.
I also think that this is not a good solution. If I would use a new
version of a scientifix program I would throw my data on both versions
and compare the results. We would force users to create virtual
machines or something like this to follow this approach. Does not sound
very comfortable to me.
> 3. Create a specific package ("plink1.9") for plink 1.9 to permit to have
> the three versions in cohabitation during the transition. Which could
> permit to replicate results obtained with all versions.
I'd probably choose this option.
> 4. Others solutions?
Hoping for more input here as well.
Kind regards and thanks for your work on this
Andreas.
> [1] https://github.com/chrchang/plink-ng/issues/12
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2015/DebianMed2015#Agenda
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