[Bioperl-l] Need Help: 0.7.2 and 0.9.1 tests and preparations

[chris dagdigian]

I downloaded the 0.7.2 release candidate and the Makefile.PL still has
"require 5.004" in it. Thats the only thing I noticed, builds cleanly 
for me under linux & openbsd.

-Chris


Linux I386 results:
===================

> All tests successful, 56 subtests skipped.
> Files=60, Tests=1011, 58 wallclock secs (21.85 cusr +  1.21 csys = 23.06 CPU)
> [dag@ani bioperl-0.7.2]$ uname -a
> Linux ani 2.4.9-6ipsec #1 Wed Oct 24 17:57:44 EDT 2001 i686 unknown



OpenBSD I386 results:
=====================

> All tests successful, 56 subtests skipped.
> Files=60, Tests=1011, 84 wallclock secs (30.26 cusr +  3.93 csys = 34.19 CPU)
> gw:bioperl-0.7.2 {100} uname -a
> OpenBSD gw.sonsorol.net 2.9 GENERIC#653 i386
> gw:bioperl-0.7.2 {101} 



-Chris


Jason Eric Stajich wrote:

> I've put 0.7.2 candidate in
> ftp://bioperl.org/pub/jason/bioperl-0.7.2-candidate.tar.gz
> 
> Please download and test and help be part of the Bioperl development
> process.  We need all platforms and environments tested although we should
> hope to see no surprises from the 0.7.1 release.  Please note that we now
> require perl >= 5.005.  We'll release and push to CPAN if all looks good.
> Note this is different that the file in
> ftp://bioperl.org/pub/DIST/bioperl-0.7.2.tar.gz (see footnote [1] for
> reasons why) which is really not the 0.7.2 release.
> 
> The 0.7.2 is a release from the 0.7 stable branch and so does not have
> some of the functionality of the 0.9.x series (development head).  We will
> plan to release another developer's release in the next few weeks which
> will contain many new additions including Lincoln's GFF db, blastxml
> parser, some improvements to BPlite & Variation modules, and
> dna/rna->protein translation in 6 frames.
> 
> For those interested in helping with the 0.9.1 release please checkout the
> latest version from the head and run the tests.  Currently we have
> the following tests breaking so no need to report them.
> 
> Tempfile.t -- due to some changes in RootI, Ewan and I are sorting out
> seqwithqual.t -- due to changes on my part, but I think I need Chad's help
>                  to fix them back (if you're not completely pissed at me
>                  for breaking things)
> primaryqual.t -- ditto
> csmscf.t      -- ditto
> 
> 
> Yours,
> -jason
> 
> [1] (geeky developer CVS talk here)
> It should be noted that due to an error on my part in the 0.7.1 release
> there is already a release-0-7-2 tag on the repository - this is
> essentially the same as the release-0-7-1 tag except for the MANIFEST and
> Bio::SeqIO::genbank.  I plan to either nuke the 0-7-2 tag and readd it
> when we tag this release or tag it as 0-7-2-1.  However I plan to call
> this the 0.7.2 release to avoid any further confusion (if I haven't
> already created it by mentioning all this).  I did push out a 0.7.2
> tarball immedietly after the 0.7.1 error thinking we would use it to
> replace the CPAN submission, but have thought better otherwise.  Thie
> release will replace that file since it is identical to the corrected
> 0.7.1 tarball.  If you have better ideas I am all ears.
> 
> --
> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu
> 
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