[Bioperl-l] Attention: upcoming BioPerl 1.5 developer's release

[James Thompson]

I've run the a "make test" on my CVS version of bioperl-live on a Sun E450
running Solaris 8 and Perl 5.8.5, here's the summary output:

Failed Test      Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/CodonTable.t                 40    4  10.00%  41-44
t/DB.t                         78    2   2.56%  34 39
t/ProtMatrix.t                 15    4  26.67%  12-15
t/Registry.t      255 65280     6    3  50.00%  5-6
t/RootStorable.t    2   512    34   56 164.71%  7-34
t/SeqIO.t           2   512   270  386 142.96%  78-270
t/SeqStats.t                   28    9  32.14%  10-12 21-24 26 28
t/SimpleAlign.t   255 65280    61   16  26.23%  54-61
t/splicedseq.t                  9    4  44.44%  3 5-6 9
111 subtests skipped.

I have more detailed output if anyone wants it. 

Cheers,

James

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Aaron J. Mackey wrote:

> 
> With much-appreciated help from Steve Chervitz and Allen Day, there's 
> about to be a real push towards a 1.5 developer's release; as such, I 
> highly encourage all module authors/maintainers to get in those 
> documentation updates and finish any functionalities you've only 
> "stubbed" in place.  I'm not yet declaring a freeze, but don't be 
> surprised if I do so soon ...
> 
> I have a pretty good idea of the new things that have gone in since 
> 1.4, but it wouldn't hurt you to drop me a private line about any 
> significant new functionality, changed API or bug fixes you've done 
> since the 1.4 releases.  You should also check the AUTHORS file and 
> make sure your contact and attribution information is listed as you so 
> desire.
> 
> Now is also the time for you with "odd" systems (for me that means Sun, 
> SGI, and any Windows) to give the bioperl-live CVS checkout a full make 
> test, and to post your results (preferably only the stuff that didn't 
> work).  If you can provide a patch, even better!
> 
> I hope to have a release candidate available by the end of next week, 
> with the real thing following very shortly thereafter (unless there are 
> show-stoppers, of course)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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