[Bioperl-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] BioPerl 1.6 RC4

[Brian Osborne]

Chris,

All tests successful.
Files=318, Tests=18786, 428 wallclock secs ( 3.06 usr  1.80 sys +  
121.07 cusr 17.74 csys = 143.67 CPU)
Result: PASS

abi.t, pln.t, etc. passed after I installed io_lib-1.8.12 and bioperl- 
ext from SVN.

Great!

BIO



On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Chris Fields wrote:

> All,
>
> I would like to announce that the fourth release candidate for  
> BioPerl 1.6 is now available for testing.  This RC was necessary in  
> order to fix several tests with Windows ActivePerl.  Barring any  
> problems this should represent the final release and should be  
> tagged as such this weekend.
>
> A quick (and hopefully final) note on versioning: due to issues with  
> alpha numbered versions on CPAN possibly overwriting or taking  
> precedence over a stable release, this release candidate has a  
> VERSION of 1.005009_004 (or 1.005009004).  This will be switched to  
> 1.006000 (no alpha) once the release is final.
>
> The RC has been uploaded to CPAN and should be available soon under  
> authorname CJFIELDS.  It can also be found here:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.5.9_4/
>
> In the meantime, the release candidates can be directly downloaded  
> here:
>
> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.tar.bz2
> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.tar.gz
> http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.5.9_4.zip
>
> Signature file:
> http://bioperl.org/DIST/SIGNATURES.md5
>
> Again, just to note we will be releasing bioperl-run, bioperl-db,  
> bioperl-network, and others separately once the final 1.6 release is  
> complete.  These will likely go through a (much more abbreviated)  
> release candidate cycle depending on any problems that arise.
>
> Please feel free to report issues with testing, installation, etc.  
> on the mail list and on this page:
>
> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.6_Testing
>
> Since the last release:
>
> 1) A preliminary ActiveState PPM is available and is located in the  
> BioPerl Release Candidate repository (the directions for  
> installation: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_on_Windows) 
> .  However, a few 'required' PPM modules are not currently available  
> for perl 5.10, particularly GraphViz and XML-SAX-Writer.  We will  
> attempt adding the necessary PPMs to the BioPerl PPM directory  
> soon.  In the meantime, we can specifically remove those  
> requirements for BioPerl PPM installation if no one objects; the  
> modules affected would be Bio::SeqIO::tigrxml (XML-SAX-Writer) and  
> Bio::PhyloNetwork::GraphViz (GraphViz).
>
> 2) Several failures for tests have been corrected.  If any  
> additional system-dependent failures occur they will be fixed in a  
> 1.6 point release at a later time.
>
> 3) Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::Pg has been removed from the  
> 1.6.0 release due to failing tests but may appear in a future 1.6  
> release once the code stabilizes.
>
> enjoy!
>
> chris
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