Update HMMER source_urls, possibly use github, etc etc

fgeorgatos commented 8 years ago

Most EasyBuilders need no introduction to what source_urls's churn rate is;

HMMER was just added to the pile and now requires:

So, either the easyconfigs now require an update or, there is a better way:

For each and every software that now lives on github, use the following construct:
- source_urls = ['https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/'] # kudos for the one doing that
- fi. https://github.com/EddyRivasLab/hmmer/tree/3.0 exists

Going that way is a marvel, because you could now feed a git commit ID at --try-software-version!

In fact, this might prove to be such a better approach that it might be worthy of its own templating: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/blob/9a6df6828bd2e484318afe02d06eb6372f939bfa/easybuild/framework/easyconfig/templates.py#L91 (if so, this should become a framework issue; great advantage: no need to do that much checksums!)

@caylo: Looking for a worthy challenge? ;-)

p.s. Permit me stop the ranting here or, I will start on http://www.cython.org/release/ being down today ;-)

boegel commented 8 years ago

That being said, we're always going to be at the mercy of upstream changing things (or screwing things up, cfr. https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/438/backwards-compatible-un-hashed-package)...

boegel commented 8 years ago

fixed in #3246, follow-up there please

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