You aren’t kidding. Especially if it’s some bioinformatics software that is just hanging out there on GitHub older than a year…
You aren’t kidding. Especially if it’s some bioinformatics software that is just hanging out there on GitHub older than a year…
Do you think bioinformatics libs written in C++ do not have the same issues?
They’re weren’t that many that weren’t pre compiled for Linux in the c++ world. Python is bad, but others have issues too.
C/C++ often had to compile used “make” which I’ll admit to being better at the conda/pip.
I suspect this is because the c/c++ code was developed by people with a more comp Sci background. Configure/make/make install..I remember compiling this one.
https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/source.html
If the software made it biogrids life was easier
https://biogrids.org/
But a lot of the languages had their own quirks and challenges (Perl cpan, Java…). Containerization kinda helps.
I mean, I think this is par for the course by anything written by a grad student. Be thankful it's not written in matlab