Re: Embassy phylipnew - please use freely licensed source of phylip

[Peter Rice <ricepeterm@yahoo.co.uk>]

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/