[Bioperl-l] 1.0alpha2-rc released

[Jason Stajich]

I've put 1.0alpha2-rc release candidate up at
ftp://bioperl.org/pub/DIST/bioperl-1.0alpha2-rc.tar.gz

All tests pass for me running RH 7.1 and 7.2 i386 perl 5.6.0.

Bio::Tools::Blast has been officially deprecated, you will get a warning
message if you use it.


Please read the Changes, README, biodesign.pod, biodatabases.pod, FAQ and
be sure that they seem sensible to you.  If you have any more last minute
FAQ's you'd like to add, please do so this week.  I've also updated the
UML models and these are available as DIA documents in the models
directory as well as generated the PDFs and updated them on the website at
http://bio.perl.org/Core/Latest/modules.html, have a look and fix/tell us
if there is anything unclear or missing.  I probably need to add a legend
and a title to the UML diagrams.

***
Would someone be willing to add a little blurb about Bio::Perl module
and/or Chris Mungall do you want to add any text about the bioperl
perl shell you wrote - probably can go into the README.
***

This release has not be extensively tested on non-UNIX platforms.
Please, if you run a non-UNIX system, give this a try and see what doesn't
work so we can either fix the bugs or note it in the the release BUGS and
PLATFORMS file.  That said it needs to be run through on some other UN*Xes
too so please give it a whirl and let us know if anything misbehaves.

Expected 1.0 release is still on for next Monday 3/18 assuming the minor
things above can get done along with the checklist below.

Here are the server things that need to get done (mostly Chris D and
myself).  Are there other things that you have done in the past for
major releases.

* http://bio.perl.org/Core/Latest/modules.html to be updated to point to
  the doc.bioperl.org site only - I can also generate the static pages
  of the released code if we've got enough space otherwise we can leave it
  on the anon srv.
* if we want to keep mirroring code - add the dir
  ftp://bioperl.org/pub/SRC/branch-1.0
* Front page updated to reflect the release status when it goes out
* Insure Bundle::BioPerl has all the correct entries (Chris D)
* Push release out to CPAN (Ewan)

-jason
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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu