[Bioperl-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] BioPerl 1.6 RC4

[Chris Fields]

So far with CPAN Testers we only have one fail (IP35-irix-64int).  I  
think we'll have the final release very soon.

chris

On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Brian Osborne wrote:

> Chris,
>
> All tests successful.
> Files=318, Tests=18786, 428 wallclock secs ( 3.06 usr  1.80 sys +  
> 121.07 cusr 17.74 csys = 143.67 CPU)
> Result: PASS
>
> abi.t, pln.t, etc. passed after I installed io_lib-1.8.12 and  
> bioperl-ext from SVN.
>
> Great!
>
> BIO
>
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I would like to announce that the fourth release candidate for  
>> BioPerl 1.6 is now available for testing.  This RC was necessary in  
>> order to fix several tests with Windows ActivePerl.  Barring any  
>> problems this should represent the final release and should be  
>> tagged as such this weekend.
>>
>> A quick (and hopefully final) note on versioning: due to issues  
>> with alpha numbered versions on CPAN possibly overwriting or taking  
>> precedence over a stable release, this release candidate has a  
>> VERSION of 1.005009_004 (or 1.005009004).  This will be switched to  
>> 1.006000 (no alpha) once the release is final.
>>
>> The RC has been uploaded to CPAN and should be available soon under  
>> authorname CJFIELDS.  It can also be found here:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.5.9_4/
>>
>> In the meantime, the release candidates can be directly downloaded  
>> here:
>>
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.tar.bz2
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.tar.gz
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.zip
>>
>> Signature file:
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/SIGNATURES.md5
>>
>> Again, just to note we will be releasing bioperl-run, bioperl-db,  
>> bioperl-network, and others separately once the final 1.6 release  
>> is complete.  These will likely go through a (much more  
>> abbreviated) release candidate cycle depending on any problems that  
>> arise.
>>
>> Please feel free to report issues with testing, installation, etc.  
>> on the mail list and on this page:
>>
>> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.6_Testing
>>
>> Since the last release:
>>
>> 1) A preliminary ActiveState PPM is available and is located in the  
>> BioPerl Release Candidate repository (the directions for  
>> installation: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_on_Windows) 
>> .  However, a few 'required' PPM modules are not currently  
>> available for perl 5.10, particularly GraphViz and XML-SAX-Writer.   
>> We will attempt adding the necessary PPMs to the BioPerl PPM  
>> directory soon.  In the meantime, we can specifically remove those  
>> requirements for BioPerl PPM installation if no one objects; the  
>> modules affected would be Bio::SeqIO::tigrxml (XML-SAX-Writer) and  
>> Bio::PhyloNetwork::GraphViz (GraphViz).
>>
>> 2) Several failures for tests have been corrected.  If any  
>> additional system-dependent failures occur they will be fixed in a  
>> 1.6 point release at a later time.
>>
>> 3) Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::Pg has been removed from the  
>> 1.6.0 release due to failing tests but may appear in a future 1.6  
>> release once the code stabilizes.
>>
>> enjoy!
>>
>> chris
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