[Biopython-dev] mxTextTools optional?

[Michiel De Hoon]

The fewer software packages Biopython requires, the better, to keep things
simple for users, not to mention developers. For a future release, we should
check if the modules that still rely on mxTextTools can be replaced by
pure-Python code.

--Michiel.

Michiel de Hoon
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University
1150 St Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032



-----Original Message-----
From: biopython-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org on behalf of Peter
Sent: Sun 10/28/2007 3:59 PM
To: biopython-dev at lists.open-bio.org
Subject: Re: [Biopython-dev] mxTextTools optional?
 
Michiel De Hoon wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Biopython release 1.44 is now available for download from the Biopython
> website at http://biopython.org.

Given some of the changes (deprecations) made in this release, perhaps 
we can now change setup.py so that mxTextTools is merely suggested, but 
not required (the same way we treat reportlab and Numeric).

Any comments?

Peter

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