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  # Copyright (c) 2013-2017, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
  # Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  #
  # This file is part of Spack.
  # Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
  # LLNL-CODE-647188
  #
  # For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
  # Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
  #
  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
  # published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
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  #
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  # License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  ##############################################################################
  from spack import *
  import distutils.dir_util
  
  
  class Mefit(Package):
      """This pipeline will merge overlapping paired-end reads, calculate
      merge statistics, and filter reads for quality."""
  
      homepage = "https://github.com/nisheth/MeFiT"
      url      = "https://github.com/nisheth/MeFiT.git"
  
      version('1.0', git='https://github.com/nisheth/MeFiT.git', commit='0733326d8917570bbf70ff5c0f710bf66c13db09')
  
      depends_on('py-numpy')
      depends_on('py-htseq')
      depends_on('jellyfish')
      depends_on('casper %gcc@4.8.5')
  
      def install(self, spec, prefix):
          distutils.dir_util.copy_tree(".", prefix)
  
      def setup_environment(self, spack_env, run_env):
          run_env.prepend_path('PATH', self.prefix)
  
subject: Create new package. (#6700)