Requesting a Mac friendly build

[vivekr-gh]

Current build copies blast executables to distribution and these end with the ".exe" extension. On a mac, this prevents the editor from running blast since it only looks for ".exe" for windows operating systems:

com.quattroresearch.blastws.LocalConfig:

  private static final String BLASTN = findFile("blastn");
  private static final String BLASTP = findFile("blastp");
  [...]
    if (OSUtils.IS_WINDOWS) {
      exeFileName = fileName + ".exe";

One simple way to fix this might simply be to add ".exe" to your string and changing the conditional to look for anything that isn't windows.

  private static final String BLASTN = findFile("blastn.exe");
  private static final String BLASTP = findFile("blastp.exe");
  [...]
    if (OSUtils.IS_WINDOWS==false) {
      exeFileName = fileName.substring(0,fileName.length-4);

That's one way. Another way might be to detect the OS in ant and remove the file extension if not windows. Multiple ways to achieve this result :)

[MarkusWeisser]

Yes, you are right. You have to manually copy the blast executables on Mac. We will check your proposed solution.