Travis, the issue is that they want ARM and PPC64le support, which we currently don't offer (but may in the future -- Andreas, it is on our roadmap, but dependent on $$ and staff). We currently only support Intel-compatible and PPC-compatible platforms, because of our dependence on SSE2 and Altivec/VMX vector instructions.
Sean > On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > > Hi Travis, > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:12:25PM -0700, Travis Wheeler wrote: >> Andreas - >> >> I notice that you recently posted a changelog "hmmer 3.1b2-2 source >> package in Ubuntu", in which you indicate a plan to "restrict >> architectures to Intel architectures". >> (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hmmer/3.1b2-2) > > To be correct: I never ever posted anything on Ubuntu nor am I familiar > with launchpad at all. I'm a Debian developer working inside the Debian > Med team that cares for packages in the field of biology and medicine > inside Debian. I have no idea at all what might become propagated to > some Ubuntu channels where you somehow recived this news. > >> I'm one of the HMMER developers. > > Great. :-) > >> I'm not familiar enough with the >> launchpad infrastructure to ask questions within its framework, so I'm >> e-mailing you directly. > > Since you indicated that you would have directed your question to a > public forum I keep the relevant bug log in CC[1] (simply "answer to > all recipients" to do the same). > >> May I ask why you're suggesting a restricted >> architecture? HMMER is written to work across many architectures, >> including AMD. > > AMD remains supported. I just forwarded the problem described in the > Debian bug #806675 to Sean Eddy who was mentioned as contact address > for HMMER and I have quotet his response in the packaging metadata[2]. > I'd be delighted to hear that HMMER would also be able to run on > specifially arm64. > >> Your post mentions bug 806675, but that doesn't seem to >> be related to HMMER. > > I would be delighted to hear that you would be able to solve the issue > described in the Debian bug[1] and if so it would be very easy to drop > the architecture restriction again. > > Kind regards and thanks a lot for your input > > Andreas. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/806675 > [2] > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/README.source?view=markup > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de
