[Biojava-l] New package for databases

[Thomas Down]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:15:42PM +0200, Gerald Loeffler wrote:
> i opt for
> 
> 	org.biojava.bio.seq.db
> 
> and i also would naturally take over the task of putting my
> SequenceDBInstallation related work into this package.

That's my preference, too.  If I don't get any objections,
I'll go ahead with this this afternoon, and then you can check in
SequenceDBInstallation whenever you feel like it.

> In addition, i'd like to donate some of my utility classes (for design
> by contract, equality and hashcodes) (which i do not want to miss when
> coding for BioJava) to the existing package
> 
> 	org.biojava.utils

Sounds good to me.  I noticed the contract stuff in some
example code you've submitted, and it looks good -- I might
well be tempted to use it myself.

At the moment, we don't have any structure for utils, but if
you're checking in a reasonable number of related classes, feel
free to propose subpackages.

> 	org.biojava.seq.search

Yep, interfaces for representing searches are very definitely a
Good Thing.  I guess it might be best to wait until there's
an implementation done before finally checking them in, but I'm
certainly happy with that as a provisional location for the 
interfaces.

Thanks,
   Thomas.
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