Bioconductor provide a list of R packages to analyse high-throughput genomic data. Every six months a new version of Bioconductor is released fixing the version of the included packages. It is always nice to come back to the same version of packages that generated the results.

Bioconductor versions are bound ...

In C and C++, we normally separate the declaration and the definition of a function in two separated files: the header file contain the declaration of the function (.h or .hh file) and the source code itself which contain the definition of the function (.c or .cpp file). When we ...

It can append that when we try to access a Mercurial repository we got the following error:

abort: requirement 'fncache' not supported!

It append when a "too old" version of Mercurial is used. Indeed, from version 1.1, Mercurial used a new repository format (fncache), which is no more readable ...

When we try to include a repository in an other while they never had any common point we got the following error:

$ hg push ../second
mercurial abort: repository is unrelated

To go above it we need to force the fusion with the -f option:

$ hg push -f ../second

Some notes to be able to construct a small program able to apply a regex to translated string of a po file

Will be done certainly in python:

• polib python module to be able to handle the po files seems quite simple to use according to the Quick start guide ...

Programs are sending message on two different steam of data: standard output and standard error. Standard output, notes as stdout, is where the program is writing the output data. Standard error or stderr is to output the error messages or diagnostics. With this two stream we can therefore separate between ...

po files are used by programs to translate the messages in different languages. Thus they contain a list of all translatable strings extracted from the code and their corresponding translation, in a given language. Here are given some information to manipulate and few resources to help the translation, mainly derived ...

Like with python, the handling of [[!wikipedia UTF-8]] string in perl is not straight forward since this language was not originally design to handle Unicode strings of characters.

Often the automatic builds are controlled by the make tools using the rules defined in so named Makefile. make is very nice since it allow a smooth control of the build with a direct link with dependencies. Therefore only what is need to be build is built. A rule is ...