[Bioperl-l] Should Bio::Tools::BPlite be deprecated?
Sendu Bala
bix at sendu.me.uk
Mon Oct 16 17:21:58 UTC 2006
Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> The problem is it is not maintained, and there are outstanding been bug
> reports.
>
> If you un-deprecate it, then we need a response to people who come
> across problems with it when using it. Either you change the POD to say
> exactly who and when one should use it (or rather not) and point to the
> fact that it is unsupported for all other cases.
>
> Or what would you suggest?
I'm not sure.
Does Bio::Index::Blast even work correctly? Does it suffer from whatever
bugs Bio::Tools::BPlite has? Is Bio::Index::Blast maintained? Should
that be deprecated as well?
Ideally I'd like to see Bio::Index::Blast updated to use Bio::SearchIO
and then Bio::Tools::BPlite can be deprecated. But like I say, it didn't
seem trivial (or even appropriate).
Ultimately I just wanted to solve the warnings in the test suite.
Thoughts, Chris?
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