[Slackbuilds-users] abandoning jalview

[Petar Petrov]

hi Alexander,

you are free to do all this. For me, it is just too much of a hassle.
Also, the program has an installer.

regards

petar

2017-10-15 16:00 GMT+03:00 Alexander Verbovetsky <alik at ejik.org>:
> Hello,
>
>> I am abandoning this:
>> academic/jalview/
>>
>> The reasons:
>>
>> It has an installer
>> (http://www.jalview.org/Web_Installers/install.htm) and extracting the
>> contents from the installer required an old version of p7zip. This
>> caused p7zip to be stuck with that old version at SBo for quite some
>> time. Finally, I decided to host it myself at sourceforge as a tar.gz
>> -- this means that I have to keep an old version of p7zip and
>> repackage and upload the 'source' to SF every time there's an update
>> from upstream. Too much of a hassle...
>
> I'm not a user of jalview and have no idea about its value, but if you
> would like to keep it, maybe it's possible to create a new SlackBuild
> for the old version of p7zip, such SlackBuild will require no
> maintaining.
>
> Or (maybe better) the SlackBuild for jalview could contain old p7zip (or
> download it from sourceforge).
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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