[Bioperl-l] Withdraw Bio::Graphics and Bio::DB::SeqFeature from bioperl distribution?

[Chris Fields]

Lincoln,

Regardless of what we call it (1.5.3, 1.6, 'biofoo'), I'll try to  
hammer something out soonish, hopefully by Sunday.

chris

On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> Oh, let's not get stuck in a war of semantics. The point is that the  
> 1.5
> series works very well and that all of us would rather use it than the
> "stable" 1.4 release (correct me if I'm wrong!). "Stable" implies  
> that we
> are supporting the release, but in fact I suspect that most of us  
> respond to
> bug reports on 1.4 by asking people to try 1.5.2 or even bioperl-live.
>
> Lincoln
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sendu Bala <bix at sendu.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Chris Fields wrote:
>>
>>> I'll volunteer to do this.  I think this should be a 1.6 release.   
>>> Users
>>> have been screaming for a 'stable' release for years now, and  
>>> everything on
>>> trunk is definitely more stable than 1.4,
>>>
>>
>> Well, again, I don't see the value in calling it 1.6. Yes people  
>> want a
>> stable release, but calling it 1.6 doesn't make it stable. Doing  
>> the things
>> in the plan for 1.6 makes it stable. What you're proposing is to  
>> just lie to
>> everyone - "You want 'stable'? Here, have this thing I decided to  
>> label as
>> 'stable'!" It's very wrong-headed in my view.
>>
>> Do we really want all those half-tested, half-thought-out APIs that  
>> may be
>> hanging around to become official and therefore need to support  
>> them and
>> make their proper replacements backwards compatible come 1.7?
>>
>> But ultimately it's just semantics so I won't bring it up again. I  
>> suppose
>> any issues that arise can be solved with a wiki update explaining  
>> that
>> 'stable' doesn't really mean stable, or that 1.6 wasn't a stable  
>> release, or
>> that our numbering scheme no longer has any particular meaning (it  
>> doesn't
>> have to, after all).
>>
>
>
>
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Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Marie-Claude Hofmann
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign