[Biojava-l] Heads up: packages moving

[Thomas Down]

There's been quite a lot of code accumulated into the
BioJava core (biojava-live) CVS module.  Before the
1.1 freeze (which I hope will be Real Soon Now), I'd
like to see some peripheral packages moving out to
separate, optional CVS modules.

There are two candidates for this:

   The `CORBA' packages        -> biojava-corba

   The  `ACeDB' packages       -> acedb, biojava-acedb

Neither of these package have recieved very much attention
during the 1.1 development cycle.  It's likely that I will
be doing some more work on the org.acedb packages in the
not-too-distant future, but it would be good if we could
find someone interested in maintaining the CORBA packages
(they still need upgrading to the latest IDL, I think).

Is everyone happy with these moves?  If so, they'll happen
in the next couple of days.  Or is there a strong feeling in
favour of leaving this functionality in biojava-live?

(Note -- if you look at
http://cvs.biojava.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=biojava
you'll see that there are already several `optional' modules in
the biojava repository -- this is just a continuation of that
trend).

    Thomas.