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Re: Latest Bio-Formats in Fiji

Posted by ctrueden on Dec 05, 2014; 10:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Latest-Bio-Formats-in-Fiji-tp5009834p5010804.html

Hi Aryeh,

> About two weeks ago, when 5.0.6 was announced, I allowed the Fiji
> updater to update formats-gpl. The updated version correctly read my
> multifield ND2, so I thought that this bug was resolved. However,
> yesterday, following an update, the problem reappeared. Again,the
> workaround was to use the 5.0.2 version of formats-gpl.

That is very odd. It would be great if you could somehow isolate the
difference between the working version of Fiji vs. the non-working
one—especially if they both used Bio-Formats 5.0.6.

What happens if you enable the Bio-Formats update site? Still non-working?

If you get a chance, you could also test with the "showinf" command line
tool [1], which would rule out any Fiji-specific installation issues. And
of course testing from multiple different machines might also shed some
light on things.

Regards,
Curtis

[1] http://openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/users/comlinetools/

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Aryeh Weiss <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 10/6/14, 11:17 PM, Aryeh Weiss wrote:
>
>> Hi Melissa
>>
>> On 10/6/14, 4:27 PM, Melissa Linkert wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aryeh,
>>>
>>>  You are correct. We will be switching over to 5.1.x, but in the mean
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> it looks like the nd2 fix
>>>>>> <https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/commit/
>>>>>> 3c857c2e5743e9b23801408bd61de49697716b4d>
>>>>>> you're looking for only affected the formats-gpl component. You
>>>>>> should be
>>>>>> able to just download that specific jar, and replace the
>>>>>> formats-gpl-5.0.5.jar in your Fiji.app/jars/bioformats directory (the
>>>>>> old
>>>>>> version will just be called "formats-gpl.jar" if you still have the
>>>>>> Bio-Formats update site enabled).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  How can I turn this into the formats-gpl.jar file?
>>>>> If I can do that, I will replace my version 5.0.2 file, and see if it
>>>>> works properly
>>>>>
>>>> Instead of compiling from source, you can also download the latest 5.1
>>> builds from:
>>>
>>> http://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/Bio-Formats/job/BIOFORMATS-5.1-latest/
>>> lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/artifacts/
>>>
>>> For anyone trying this though, please do note that mixing 5.1 and 5.0
>>> files is not supported and very unlikely to work, so you will need to
>>> update all files to 5.1.  Be aware that this can cause problems with
>>> other plugins that use Bio-Formats, as there are API differences between
>>> the two versions (though we have not yet released 5.1.0).
>>>
>>
>> Thank you (and also Mark) for your replies.
>> I downloaded the  5.1 builds for all of the jar files in the
>> jars/bio-formats directory of my Fiji distribution.
>> When I dragged one of my nd2 files into Fiji, bio-formats opened, but had
>> the same bug as reported previously.
>> When I restored the old bio-formats directory with the 5.0.2 version of
>> gpl, it worked properly.
>> I did not try the 5.0.2 gpl with the 5.1 release, because of Melissa
>> warning concerning mixing the two versions.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> --aryeh
>>
>>
>>  We are also considering this fix for a 5.0.6 release of Bio-Formats,
>>> which
>>> would eliminate the need to manually update files.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -Melissa
>>>
>>>
> About two weeks ago, when 5.0.6 was announced, I allowed the Fiji updater
> to update formats-gpl.
> The updated version correctly read my multifield ND2, so I thought that
> this bug was resolved.
> However, yesterday, following an update, the problem reappeared. Again,the
> workaround was to use the 5.0.2 version of
> formats-gpl.
>
> I have not had a chance to search my recent backups for this file to see
> if I can determine exactly when it broke again -- I will try to do that.
>
>
> Best regards,
> --aryeh
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:52:39AM -0500, Mark Hiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Aryeh,
>>>>
>>>>  How can I turn this into the formats-gpl.jar file?
>>>>>
>>>> Great question! I'm cc'ing the list because I think this information is
>>>> of
>>>> general interest.
>>>>
>>>> The Bio-Formats site has a page with instructions for downloading and
>>>> building the jars from source:
>>>> https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/
>>>> developers/building-bioformats.html
>>>>
>>>> After cloning the Bio-Formats repository
>>>> <http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-
>>>> Repository#Cloning-an-Existing-Repository>,
>>>> you can either:
>>>> * Check out a specific tag
>>>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/791959/download-a-
>>>> specific-tag-with-git>
>>>> or
>>>> * Check out a specific commit
>>>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2007662/rollback-to-
>>>> an-old-commit-using-git>
>>>>
>>>> Or it should be fine to just build the "develop" branch, since the
>>>> patch in
>>>> question was merged.
>>>>
>>>> After building Bio-Formats, all the output .jars will be in the
>>>> /artifacts
>>>> sub-directory of your Bio-Formats checkout.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you have any more questions, and thank you for taking the
>>>> time to test this!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Aryeh Weiss <[hidden email]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi Mark
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/1/14, 10:21 PM, Mark Hiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Christophe,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   As far as I understand, the current dailies are 5.0, not 5.1 yet
>>>>>> You are correct. We will be switching over to 5.1.x, but in the mean
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> it looks like the nd2 fix
>>>>>> <https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/commit/
>>>>>> 3c857c2e5743e9b23801408bd61de49697716b4d>
>>>>>> you're looking for only affected the formats-gpl component. You
>>>>>> should be
>>>>>> able to just download that specific jar, and replace the
>>>>>> formats-gpl-5.0.5.jar in your Fiji.app/jars/bioformats directory (the
>>>>>> old
>>>>>> version will just be called "formats-gpl.jar" if you still have the
>>>>>> Bio-Formats update site enabled).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  How can I turn this into the formats-gpl.jar file?
>>>>> If I can do that, I will replace my version 5.0.2 file, and see if it
>>>>> works properly
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks and best regards
>>>>> --aryeh
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
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