[Bioc-devel] Incorrect EBImage_3.6.0.zip URL for Windows 64-bit binary online?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Hello Henrik,
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> According to
>>
>>  http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html
>>
>> the EBImage package is available for download as this:
>>
>> Package Downloads:
>> Package source  EBImage_3.6.0.tar.gz
>> Windows 32-bit binary   EBImage_3.6.0.zip
>> Windows 64-bit binary   EBImage_3.6.0.zip
>> MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary   Not Available
>>
>> However, if you download the EBImage_3.6.0.zip file for Windows 64-bit
>> binary, it is for i386 (and not 'arch=x64').  Should that URL be
>> removed?
>>
>
> This has been on my list to get to for some time--I will take care of it
> today.
> By the way, how did you get to that page?

Using a by now rather well known search engine and searching for
"Bioconductor release EBImage".  "Bioconductor EBImage" leads you to
the developers page.

> There is a new package page:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioc-views/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html
> This page has the same issue--except there is only one Windows binary
> available, incorrectly labelled as for both 32 and 64-bit.

BTW, has anyone (including non-Bioc admins) tried/succeeded to build
the 64-bit Windows version?

Thxs

Henrik

> Dan
>
>>
>> Note that biocLite("EBImage") correctly reports the package as not
>> being available.
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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