[med-svn] r10018 - trunk/packages/qiime/trunk/debian

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2012-03-17 18:19:22 +0000 (Sat, 17 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 10018

Modified:
   trunk/packages/qiime/trunk/debian/README.source
Log:
Somehow the original text of the previous released package was lost - restoring


Modified: trunk/packages/qiime/trunk/debian/README.source
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/qiime/trunk/debian/README.source	2012-03-15 17:54:52 UTC (rev 10017)
+++ trunk/packages/qiime/trunk/debian/README.source	2012-03-17 18:19:22 UTC (rev 10018)
@@ -1,9 +1,46 @@
 QIIME for Debian - source
 =========================
 
+.py endings and the qiime wrapper of Bio-Linux
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Previous comment by Steffen:
+
 Lintian complains a lot about script-with-language-extension,
 i.e. the .py endings for files ending up in /usr/bin.
 What to do about this is not clear for the moment. For the
 time speaking it seems like lintian is wrong here, too deeply
 embedded is python in the project and Debian does not
 want to become incompatible.
+
+New comments by Tim:
+
+I borrowed the Bio-Linux approach for Qiime which may or may not be the best idea.
+Essentially, the Python scripts are not in the path and instead of running:
+
+% my_qiime_app.py
+
+You run:
+
+% qiime my_qiime_app.py
+
+or equivalently just:
+
+% qiime my_qiime_app
+
+The 'qiime' wrapper script adds the extension if needed and sets the path.  If run with
+no arguments it sets the path and drops to an interactive shell.
+
+The dependencies of Qiime essentially make it non-free despite the DFSG licence on the Qiime
+code itself.  Chief among these is UClust.  This package is supposed to handle the lack of UClust
+gracefully but it is still up to the user to fetch and install it.
+
+Other dependencies/TODO:
+------------------------
+
+Everything else needed should be packaged, if not in Debian proper then in the SVN.
+
+denoiser - no longer a dependency as it has been folded into Qiime itself.
+several recommended deps should probably be hard depends, as long as they are available in the archive
+
+