[Biojava-dev] sorry about biojava-live/trunk repository mess; was Re: biojava-legacy 1.8.2 release plan

[Michael Heuer]

Andreas Prlic wrote:

> I would tend to split as well. Are you and Hannes in agreement in how
> to proceed with this or is there anything we should discuss?  Let me
> know if I can help somehow in resolving this.
>
> What is the benefit of the Guava library? a quick check suggests it
> contains mainly utilities. Unless it is a significant time-saver I
> would vote for providing similar utility code as part of biojava and
> avoid dependency creep. We have a couple of module specific
> dependencies, but they are mostly adding features that are
> complementary, like the forester library or Jmol.

I also hesitate to add new external dependencies, but Guava I/O and
collections are invaluable; I wouldn't have been able to get the
performance gains with out them.

   michael