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chrchang / plink-ng

A comprehensive update to the PLINK association analysis toolset. Beta testing of the first new version (1.90), focused on speed and memory efficiency improvements, is finishing up. Development is now focused on building out support for multiallelic, phased, and dosage data in PLINK 2.0.
https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink/2.0/
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Persistent download URLs for built binaries? #267

Closed espenhgn closed 6 months ago

espenhgn commented 6 months ago

Dear @chrchang, The download URLs provided on the PLINK homepage points to files pushed to s3.amazonaws.com, however, these no longer work when the software is updated (e.g., https://s3.amazonaws.com/plink2-assets/plink2_linux_x86_64_20240504.zip). Can these build assets be uploaded somewhere persistent, e.g., as uploads with each tag/version/release here with this repository? My particular use case is Docker builds relying on these URLs, but it would be good to be able to access old(er) versions if necessary.

chrchang commented 6 months ago

https://s3.amazonaws.com/plink2-assets/alpha5/plink2_linux_x86_64_20240105.zip is expected to be persistent through 2027, unless a very serious bug is discovered.

When feature development is complete on the alpha 6 branch, its download links will be similarly persistent.

espenhgn commented 6 months ago

Thanks; we're likely better off building from source and specific git SHAs in our Docker recipes in the future.