[Babase] Re: Ranker follow up - for Jun
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Tue Aug 7 15:39:40 EDT 2007
Thanks Jun. Let us know what Tyler says. We will follow up with you
if we don't hear in a week or so.
Susan
On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Jun Yang wrote:
>
> Hi Susan:
>
> The last time Tyler and I communicated via email was
> one month ago, and Tyler was going to fix some links on
> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/RankerProgram.
>
> I can try to take a look at the first issue (hardcoded URL) Karl
> mentioned below, though Tyler can probably do this much faster
> than I. I will email him to see if he is available to make the
> checks/changes. I will have a better idea about how soon we can
> get this issue resolved by this weekend.
>
> For the copyright issue, I am fine with GPL.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --- Jun Y.
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Susan Alberts wrote:
>
>> Hi Jun,
>>
>> Hope you are well. Looking forward to seeing you end of this week
>> at the Nescent working group.
>>
>> We are very eager to get the ranker program working. We think
>> there is very little left to do, but we need some help with it. I
>> asked Karl to outline exactly what needs to be done: I have
>> forwarded his message, below. Please advise, how shall we proceed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Susan
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop at meme.com>
>>> Date: August 6, 2007 12:14:47 PM EDT
>>> To: alberts at duke.edu
>>> Subject: Getting the ranker program going
>>> Hi,
>>> 1)
>>> I would like to see the ranker program be
>>> installable/runnable when it it stored at
>>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/ranker/
>>> aka: papio.biology.duke.edu/var/www/html/ranker/.
>>> This will help us keep papio organized.
>>> When I last heard from Tyler, he asked me to
>>> put the ranker programs in the
>>> /var/www/html/ directory. I wrote back asking
>>> him to put them in /var/www/html/ranker/ and
>>> never heard back.
>>> It's my understanding that either urls or pathnames
>>> are hardcoded somewhere in the ranker's files,
>>> and I'd prefer not to be the one to make changes
>>> because it'd take me far longer than someone
>>> who knows eclipse/java/etc. I looked at them once
>>> and saw either urls or pathnames. If those paths are
>>> irrelevent to the installation/running of the ranker
>>> then this is not an issue.
>>> The ranker files can be found at:
>>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/RankerProgram?
>>> action=AttachFile
>>> Once changed, anyone in the Unix "babase" group can put
>>> them in papio.biology.duke.edu:/var/www/html/ranker/.
>>> (We will also want to update the files on the wiki,
>>> so we need to make sure to arrange that.)
>>> Tyler's documentation can be found at:
>>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/RankerProgram
>>> 2)
>>> The other thing we never heard back about is who owns
>>> the ranker program and what rights we have and what
>>> license it is available under. I'd prefer to see it
>>> put under the GPL, either v3 or v2 or later. We need
>>> to know not only for our own use but so that we know
>>> the terms under which we can distribute it, etc.
>>> Karl <kop at meme.com>
>>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708.
>> Phone 919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
>>
>>
>>
>
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
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