[BioSQL-l] release ready?

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 01:24  AM, Morten Lindow wrote:

> So - has 1.0 been released? I have played a little with developmental 
> versions, which looked promising but were to difficult and slow for my 
> skills to get to work. Iwould very much like to try an 'official' 
> release with  directions as to which bioperl and bioperl-db to use it 
> with.

It has not been released yet, primarily because I'm finding bugs in the 
Oracle version and fixing them. None of these are major though. We 
could make a cut at any time and release though.

This would not necessarily solve your problem though if your problem is 
putting the right package versions together. bioperl 1.2.1 has been 
released, and 1.2.2 which would contain a couple of fixes especially 
useful for bioperl-db is pending.

The one thing about bioperl-db that makes me wary wrt releasing it is 
documentation. The codebase may have problems in certain corners, but 
generally it works, at least in my hands :) There are a number of 
modules which carry out-dated and misleading PODs though. This could be 
very confusing and frustrating for people if there appears to be some 
sort of blessing due to it having been released. What are other peoples 
views on this?

>
> btw: Is http://obda.open-bio.org/   the official website for biosql?
>

Sort of. BioSQL originally started as (and still is?) a part of OBDA. 
The more honest answer is probably that there is no real website for 
biosql. Anybody who'd like to start would be more than welcome ...

Actually, Aaron Mackey is in the process of writing an O'Reilly net 
article about biosql. This could be a nice basis for a website.

	-hilmar

> Morten
>
> Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>> I fixed the remaining performance issues with load_ncbi_taxonomy.pl, 
>> seems to work fine now on MySQL, Pg, and Oracle. The DDL for all 
>> three RDBMSs is up-to-date with the changes decided upon in 
>> Singapore. I also updated the ERD in doc/.
>>
>> I'd say we're ready to release. If there are no objections, I'll tag 
>> and put up a release candidate as soon as I get to it.
>>
>> I propose to call the release 1.0 right away.
>>
>> Any comments, concerns, or objections? Do people think it is 
>> premature to announce to 1.0?
>>
>>     -hilmar
>
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