[Biojava-dev] Cleanups for 1.4

[Matthew Pocock]

Great!

So the next step is to merge the src-1.4 and src
trees, yes?

Matthew

 --- Thomas Down <thomas at derkholm.net> wrote: > Hi...
> 
> Some time ago, there was some discussion about
> making the next
> release of BioJava jdk1.4 only.  The response
> appeared positive.
> Since then, a number of files have been committed
> which only
> compile with jdk1.4 (including recent revisions of
> DNATools
> and ProteinTools), without any complaints.
> 
> Since it looks like jdk1.4 is the accepted target,
> I've done
> a few bits of tidying up:
> 
>     - xerces.jar removed from the biojava-live tree.
>  This
>       was big, and the version we've been shipping
> now looks
>       woefully old (about 2 years old...).  BioJava
> compiles and
>       runs fine with the builtin XML APIs in
> j2se1.4.  Users
>       can still run with xerces (hopefully a more
> recent version!)
>       if they want to, but there's really no reason
> for BioJava
>       to be shipping it any more.
> 
>     - jakarta-regexp.jar removed
> 
>     - Code which used org.apache.regexp.* APIs has
> been patched
>       to use java.util.regex instead.
> 
>     - One source file (SeqAlignReadWrite.java) has
> been removed,
>       since it just contained out-of-date versions
> of methods
>       which have since been added to SeqIOTools.
> 
> Any objections?
> 
>      Thomas.
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