use artifacts from NCBI directly

[jonalm]

add Artifact.toml generating script and Artifact.toml for blast 2.16.0

[kescobo]

I agree this is nicer than using Conda - thanks for putting in the effort!

Just need to address the artifacts version thing - since it's a stdlib, I actually don't think it needs compat, but if you keep it, you need to relax the constraint a bit.

[kescobo]

Is this valid TOML? looks like it would overwrite the entries above...

Though I assume this was auto-generated by Artifacts.jl, so maybe I'm misunderstanding

[jonalm]

Yeah, it is not obvious, but the double brackets is toml syntax for "array of tables" https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#array-of-tables

[kescobo]

As discussed on Slack, using a JLL is still better, but I'd still accept this as an incremental improvement over Conda

[jonalm]

What system are you on @kescobo, would be nice to test on windows? Maybe the CI supports that?

[kescobo]

There is definitely a way to add Windows to CI, might have to find another package to copy from.

I use Linux myself, but agree it would be nice to check

[jonalm]

I added some options to the github workflow, but don't know if I got it right. In any case, it looks like you need to approve running the workflows.

[kescobo]

Someone on slack reported an error on Windows (https://julialang.slack.com/archives/CAKKFNYLD/p1728896761497669?thread_ts=1728401460.511029&cid=CAKKFNYLD if you get in before slack eats it), but they were getting an error with the Conda version too, and said it might be their work firewall settings.

Given that windows CI here passes, I'm gonna merge and just see what comes of it.