Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:22:15 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, jwbacon@tds.net, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r370220 - in head/biology: . ncbi-blast Message-ID: <86r3vjg054.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <201410062016.s96KGZP8084850@svn.freebsd.org> (John Marino's message of "Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:16:35 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <201410062016.s96KGZP8084850@svn.freebsd.org>
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John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Log: > Add new port biology/ncbi-blast >=20=20=20 > PR: 190854 > Submitted by: Jason Bacon >=20=20=20 > The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local > similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein > sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical > significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and > evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify > members of gene families. I wish I had caught this in time. This is wrong. The port you committed installs BLAST+, not BLAST. These are two significantly different programs which implement the same algorithm. While the former is intended as a successor to the latter, they are not interchangeable. Many applications which use BLAST have not yet been, and may never be, ported to BLAST+, and this port stands in the way of a BLAST port. Since the authors, in their infinite stup^H^H^H^Hwisdom, decided to start numbering BLAST+ versions where BLAST left off, there is no way to fix this without either a) bumping PORTEPOCH or b) naming the BLAST port blast-legacy or something similar, while renaming this one to blast+ or blast-plus. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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