[BioSQL-l] *** SPAM *** Re: Fwd: Release 1.0.1 in the making

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Aug 1 17:35:14 UTC 2008


>> [...]
>> Is fixing Bug 2470 too ambitious for your planned release schedule?
>> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2470
>
> Actually it would have been had I known what I would be getting myself into
> (I need the release tomorrow night at the very latest for a course we are
> holding here ... :) After going through the easy steps I realized that there
> was a real reason for doubling use of the NCBI taxonID as primary key - it
> is what links the hierarchical structure of the taxonomy together, and also
> links the taxon names to taxon nodes. Of cource this could be done as
> lookups, but with several times over looking up almost 500,000 nodes might
> slow things down a bit.
>
> So long story short it should be fixed now. There may be some remnant bugs
> so any testing would be much appreciated. The changes are committed to svn,
> but may need a bit more time to percolate to the anonymous svn server.

I won't be able to make time to try this until next week at the
earliest (i.e. after your planned release), but when I get back to
using Biopython with BioSQL again in earnest I will check this out.

Thanks!

Peter



More information about the BioSQL-l mailing list