[Biopython] Volunteers for making Biopython release 1.77

[Peter Cock]

Good news I guess: Bio.PopGen.FDist was deprecated in Release 1.68, removed
in Release 1.70. So we don't need to worry about fdist2 anymore.

Perhaps you will have some pull requests to update the Docker images?

Peter

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 6:40 PM Daley, Christopher <dalchr28 at evergreen.edu>
wrote:

> Glad it was a simple fix.
>
> I started building a Docker container to run the full tests locally based
> on the https://github.com/biopython/biopython_docker repo, updated to
> Ubuntu 18.04 and Python 3.6. In doing so, I discovered that the download
> link for fdist2 is dead and there doesn't seem to be any other source for
> it online. Checking the other links it also seems like
> http://xxmotif.genzentrum.lmu.de
> <http://xxmotif.genzentrum.lmu.de/index.php> is down as well. The
> Bioconda package points to this github repo:
> https://github.com/soedinglab/xxmotif
>
> Any thoughts on how to proceed?
> Chris
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 8, 2020 1:34 PM
> *To:* Daley, Christopher <dalchr28 at evergreen.edu>
> *Cc:* Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com>; biopython at biopython.org <
> biopython at biopython.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Biopython] Volunteers for making Biopython release 1.77
>
> Good work on this documentation fix Chris - something I was hoping we'd
> fixed for the next release:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/2502
> <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbiopython%2Fbiopython%2Fissues%2F2502&data=02%7C01%7Cdalchr28%40evergreen.edu%7C7b4f8ecaf310434a3ef708d7f38f3ab5%7C22adcff7c06f49a68f2050711c40ddaa%7C0%7C0%7C637245668819672472&sdata=vURpurv9OtDscqOlvhwzLAJRpTkXIL8kBBdThBPixb4%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Another important task (which on re-reading might be made even more
> explicit) is running all the tests locally, including the online tests
> (since we skip those on TravisCI and AppVeyor). This occasionally throws up
> nasty surprises:
>
> https://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
> <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiopython.org%2Fwiki%2FBuilding_a_release&data=02%7C01%7Cdalchr28%40evergreen.edu%7C7b4f8ecaf310434a3ef708d7f38f3ab5%7C22adcff7c06f49a68f2050711c40ddaa%7C0%7C0%7C637245668819672472&sdata=lrcab79xhC4o2iSgzIe%2Bcy%2FGmqcPlVB4cgzdqzk9HSw%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Peter
>
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