ncbi-cxx-toolkit-public - a monorepo for NCBI tools?

Andrius Merkys <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:36:06 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.medical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

Recently I learnt about ncbi-cxx-toolkit-public [1]. When asked about 
#1097435 in ncbi-igblast, the upstream replied that the tarball on NCBI 
site [2] is outdated and that code now lives in [1], which to me seems 
like a monorepo for a bunch of NCBI tools. Can anyone confirm that?

Now the main question is whether we should switch our ncbi-* package 
sources to watch this repository. I am inclined to do so at least for 
ncbi-igblast, but maybe there is benefit to unify to a single source 
package?

Best wishes,
Andrius

[1] https://github.com/ncbi/ncbi-cxx-toolkit-public
[2] https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/igblast/release/LATEST/