Should we expect tests to pass on the development branch?

[Robert Syme]

Hi Benedict,

I'm interested in getting cactus to work for a comparative fungal genomics paper that I'm writing.

I couldn't get the master branch to compile, so I tried the development branch. While `make all` seemed to go smoothly, running the tests results in 7 failures and two errors (attached). Should we expect the development branch to pass all tests? Is the project mature enough to be get dependable results for a paper?

Thanks for the software, and your time

-r

Rob Syme
PhD Student
Curtin University

[Benedict Paten]

Hi Rob,

The answer is yes, some of the tests will fail if you don't have a
dataset, which can be found here:

And you have not set (tacky I know), the environment variable
SON_TRACE_DATASETS to point to the root of it.

I've updated the install doc on dev and the master to reflect this.

https://github.com/benedictpaten/cactus/blob/development/doc/INSTALL.txt

As to if cactus is ready for whole genomes, I think I'd have to say no.

We're trying really hard to make it so, I hope within a couple of
months we will have solved the remaining scaling problems,

Benedict

[Benedict Paten]

Oops, dataset can be found at:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/156669/datasets.tar.bz2