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bredelings / BAli-Phy

Bayesian co-estimation of phylogenies and multiple alignments via MCMC
http://www.bali-phy.org/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Ubuntu LTS? #9

Open josephwb opened 4 years ago

josephwb commented 4 years ago

It is nice that BAli-Phy is available using package managers. However, it is not available on the current Ubuntu LTS release (v18.04).

Is it possible to make it available from an LTS (which I imagine most users, er, use), or are there significant roadblocks?

If this is not possible, it is not a big deal, as building it is straightforward (and the precompiled binaries are almost as convenient).

bredelings commented 4 years ago

Yeah, this is an issue. Debian testing and Ubuntu active development (currently fossa) will get packages automatically in a few days. But for old Ubuntu releases, I have to build packages specifically and then distribute them. The easiest way right now is probably to download the tarball instead of using a package manager.

Making DEB packages for older ubuntu should be doable. I am already compiling them through github actions on an older ubuntu. Making a DEB could also be done, but I have to figure out how to do that in this context.

Then I have to upload them to a PPA, I guess.

bredelings commented 4 years ago

As a side comment, I personally use Debian testing for servers and Debian "unstable" for desktop/laptop. I like the rolling releases better than the Ubuntu static release model.

josephwb commented 4 years ago

Understood. Thanks.

bredelings commented 4 years ago

I'm going to try to figure out how to run a DEB creation process from github actions.

josephwb commented 4 years ago

Ok, kewl. I was more curious than anything, although I imagine it will eventually be useful.