From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Ribotaper. Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 23:32:02 +1000 Message-ID: <577E59D2.3010107@uq.edu.au> References: <20160707092629.23884-1-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL9Ph-0007VI-1w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:32:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL9Pb-00073q-V5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:32:19 -0400 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:46648 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL9Pb-00073T-Bc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:32:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160707092629.23884-1-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus , guix-devel@gnu.org On 07/07/16 19:26, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > this patch adds a bioinformatics tool called "Ribotaper". It needs a somewhat > older version of bedtools, because the output format produced by bedtools > changed after version 2.18.0 (they don't seem to care about semantic > versioning). This is why this patch not only adds a variable "ribotaper" but > also "bedtools-for-ribotaper". > > Do you think I should rather name it "bedtools-2.18" and make it public so > that users can install it? This would be my preference, IIUC this is the current way we do this. Is there any difference from previous times we've had to include outdated packages? Note that I just updated bedtools, although I imagine that won't help here. Thanks. ben