mountainsort for ubuntu 17.10 (and soon 18.04)

[nfaivre]

Installing mountainsort on ubuntu 17.10 with python 3.6.3-1 leads to errors, both with the ppa and compiling approach.

PPA: when running sudo apt-get install mountainsort I get an error like that:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mountainsort-pyms : Depends: libpython3.5 (>= 3.5.0~b1) but it is not installable
(note that the install of mountainlab goes smoothly).

The manual approach also fails unfortunately: the compilation says it is succesful, but then upon running mp-list-processors I get a list of errors like this one:
mproc.processormanager warning "Potential problem with executable processor file: /home/faivre/mountainlab/bin/../packages/mountainsort/packages/pyms/basic/basic.mp. Expected json output but got empty string."

Note that changing to Python 3.5 with conda does not change anything.

Support for more recent ubuntu versions, and the upcoming LTS version would be great! Thanks for the good work!

[wysota]

We'll be fixing that.

[magland]

Planning to release a new version on April 13th that should easier to install on all linux flavors.