[Biojava-l] Biojava Dependency on Forester

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Terry,

Biojava depends on forester version 0.955. There are no plans to get
rid of this dependency, as far as I know. However we can try to
upgrade to a newer version if that helps.

If you are working in a Maven environment and you pull in BioJava that
way, you can add an exclusion to your config. Something like the XML
below. This forces your project to ignore the older forester library
configured in biojava. Is this a suitable workaround for your problem?

Andreas


	<dependency>
			<groupId>org.biojava</groupId>
			<artifactId>biojava3-phylo</artifactId>
			<version>3.0.4</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>org</groupId>
					<artifactId>forester</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>




On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Terry Casstevens <tmc46 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> I am the lead developer of the software Tassel.
> http://www.maizegenetics.net/tassel
>
> We currently use Biojava 3.0.  And we are
> wanting to use the latest release of Forester.
> Since Biojava has a dependency on an older
> release of Forester, we are running into conflicts.
> Can you help explain Biojava's dependency on
> Forester?
>
> What version of Forester does Biojava 3.0 require?
> It looks like version 0.955
>
> What version of Forester does Biojava 3.0.4 require?
>
> Does any Biojava jar files include Forester classes?
> Or just references?
>
> Are there plans to remove Biojava's dependency
> on Forester?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Terry Casstevens