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installation wasn't a pleasant experience

Open rchikhi opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, I very much look forward to use dashing, however three small issues with how it is distributed made me lose some time during installation:

  1. source code is huge due to its dependencies, took me more than 10mins to git clone
  2. releases didn't work on my (old) cluster, so I needed to build from source. Could you please provide more portable binaries?
  3. bioconda install worked :) but it wasn't mentioned on the README. EDIT: ahh I take it back, there is a badge! I didn't see it

rchikhi avatar Jun 24 '20 16:06 rchikhi

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback!

You're right that recursive submodules can take a long time, which is something we're looking to improve without making dependency management too difficult.

Good to know RE: binary releases; Outside of manual static compilations, the only standard solution for cross-platform binary distribution I'm aware of is Holy Build Box, but it was restricted to gcc4 last I checked. I'll try to find a better method for distribution.

Glad bioconda worked! I'll update installation instructions to make it clearer that it is an option.

Thanks again,

Daniel

dnbaker avatar Jun 25 '20 17:06 dnbaker

thanks for the response! Maybe the CI's like Travis/CircleCI/Github actions?

rchikhi avatar Jun 25 '20 21:06 rchikhi