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Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
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Add previous versions of a package #2208

Closed bow closed 8 years ago

bow commented 8 years ago

Hi Bioconda developers,

I saw that the VarScan (version 2.4.2) is available in the recipes. I am wondering, however, what the policy is for adding previously released versions of a package.

My concrete use case is that I may need to use a previous version of VarScan (version 2.3.7 to be exact). I've tested this locally, following the guidelines set in the README up to the docker test, and everything seems to work fine.

Now, are there specific policies for supporting older versions of a package? Are they even allowed? If so, what should be done so that, in this case, VarScan 2.3.7 is added to the recipes? There are only two strings that need to be changed: the version string and the URL for downloading the package (this particular version is only hosted in SourceForge it seems). Everything else is the same as the existing 2.4.2 setup, so it seems quite trivial for a pull request (though I am absolutely fine with doing so :) ).

bgruening commented 8 years ago

@bow they are allowed and a few of us really want to have them visible at any time. For the moment, please create a subdirectory called 2.3.7 in the varscan folder, this should do the trick.

bow commented 8 years ago

Hi @bgruening,

Great :). Would you prefer I open a merge request for this?

bgruening commented 8 years ago

@bow that would be awesome! Btw. it's called Pull request. You are asking us if we can pull your changes :) Strange words I know :)

bow commented 8 years ago

@bgruening Aha, indeed ~ I often get lost in the terminology :P. But anyway, it's open now here: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/pull/2211 :).