[Bioperl-l] Blast stuff

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> That's a tough move. It will force people to migrate their scripts
> if they want to switch to 1.2 (which is what we want them to do). I
> can imagine lots of people out there still use Blast.pm, let alone
> legacy code. Note that for legacy code the original coder is not
> necessarily around anymore - you'd basically create a maintenance
> headache for certain people or render them unable or reluctant to
> upgrade to 1.2 - you don't want that do you.
>
> Can't we put strong statements into the doc saying that you have
> opened the wrong POD and you should be looking at SearchIO instead,
> and if you continue to read on you're on your own, will encounter
> bugs, reports of which will go unanswered?

What about making a new repository - bioperl-retired which you can check
out?


Basically for people who have this legacy problem and therefore are not
moving forward, isn't the right advice "don't upgrade your Bioperl?".


I still vote for it. Register Hilmar's vote against.