Dear Bill,
You have not missed anything, we do not have a mechanism for delivering source code *updates* in automatic fashion as yet. Our statistics shows that source code distributions make only 2-3% of binary downloads, therefore, I hope that you would understand that we have to prioritise our efforts. CCP4 is currently in transitional state regarding its repository system and build mechanism, so that not everything is in due shape, and I apologise for any inconvenience this is causing to you.
Current source codes are available from FusionForge at
http://fg.oisin.rc-harwell.ac.uk
just choose Project->Project List->Project Name (e.g. sfcheck) -> SCM and a checkout command will be on the screen. These are our new repositories, but we have not finished migration to them yet. Codes that you do not see on FusionForge, are still available from CVS:
http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/cvs
We do realise that checking out sources and building them on client's side may be a non-trivial task to do. In order to help that, we are developing a completely new build system, which allows one to automatically check out CCP4 components and build them individually or all at once with a single command. This is meant to be our build system for next release (hopefully), and, in fact, Windows part of 6.3.0 was actually built with it. I would like to encourage you to have a look at
http://devtools.fg.oisin.rc-harwell.ac.uk
which is a not-so-long instruction on how to use the new system. It can be used right away to build current source codes, so that you do not have to browse the repositories.
We would be highly appreciative if you give it a try and communicate your feedback to us. As I mentioned, things are currently being shaped, and we are prepared to have any suggestions. Please do not put it away if it does not work for you for any reason, and speak to us instead.
Responsible people, who are to be contacted for feedback/clarification/help:
New build system: Marcin Wojdyr at [log in to unmask]
New repositories: Charles Ballard at [log in to unmask] and/or
Ville Uski at [log in to unmask]
I hope that this clarifies the issue, but let me know if it does not.
Best regards,
Eugene
On 9 Oct 2012, at 15:09, William G. Scott wrote:
> Dear Ronan et al:
>
> I apologize if I have missed it, but is there a simple way to obtain the corresponding changes in the source code for those of us who compile ccp4 ourselves?
>
> I looked on the web site and the ftp site but can't seem to find it.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:20 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Dear CCP4 Users,
>>
>> A CCP4 update has just been released, consisting of the following changes:
>>
>> * MrBUMP: model building options added
>> * PISA: new QT interface
>> * AMPLE: bug fixes and expanded interface (Linux and MAC only)
>> * tlsextract: correction of output format which broke parsing of output
>> * DiffractionImage: corrections to reading of pilatus mini-cbf
>> * ccp4i: New AMPLE (Linux and Mac) and MrBUMP interfaces, QT-PISA launcher and bug fixes
>> * crank: bug fix (Windows only)
>>
>> The easiest way to obtain the update is to install the CCP4 update client, if you have not done so already. Note that auto-updates will work correctly only with CCP4 release 6.3.0, therefore upgrade if necessary. Report bugs to [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Many thanks for using CCP4,
>>
>> -- Ronan Keegan
>>
>>
>>
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