daviesrob

Would it be better to use an `hts` prefix, resulting in `hts_fmt_sam`, `hts_compress_gzip` etc.? > Will there ever be a good time to change the existing constants? While it doesn't...

The tricky part here is how to do this without breaking the expectations of programs that think `VCF_INDEL` is 4. These values are currently set by [`bcf_set_variant_type()`](https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/58d9f604/vcf.c#L4162) which is only...

Setting `bcf1_t.max_unpack` makes `bcf_read()` skip over parts of the data, which means you will be missing some of the information needed by `bcf_write()`. It's intended to be used by programs...

It could be a bug in `bcf_dup()`. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a SEGV out of it yet, just other assorted bad behaviour. Would it be possible to...

I suspect the web request to get data is failing, and the error is not being propagated up correctly. I'll see if I can find out where it's being lost.

Pull request #1040 adds more error checking to tabix, which should make it more likely to fail in a prompt fashion. Would it be possible to build that version and...

Currently `tabix` doesn't have a way to turn up HTSlib's logging. I'll try adding that to my pull request, as it would probably help you to diagnose the problem.

I've added a verbosity option to my PR branch. Running something like `tabix --verbosity 9` should make the libcurl interface dump a lot of information about what it's doing to...

That's annoying. In spite of all that extra reporting, `tabix` hasn't emitted an error message. Do you know what emitted the `Reading ... failed` message, as it doesn't look like...

Yes, you're correct. Not sure how I managed to miss that. Anyway, it looks like it's failing without setting `errno`. Does it always fail on this file, or are the...