[Biopython-dev] Old Biopython code for EBI Bibliographics services

[Peter]

I posted the following email on the mail discussion mailing list, and
haven't seen any replies.

Should we mark Bio.biblio as deprecated now (before the imminent release)?

Peter

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>  We have an old module Bio/biblio.py written by Tiaan Wessels back in
>  2002 (during a South African hackathon).  This is code to use some EBI
>  Bibliographics services, but currently no longer works.  At the very
>  least, the EBI have changed the URLs for their SOAP services.  I got
>  in touch with the author by email, and he no longer uses the code and
>  thought we could remove it.
>
>  Does anyone on the list still use Bio/biblio.py?
>
>  Would anyone like to take a more in depth look at the code, and the
>  current EBI web API, and see if there is anything in Bio.biblio worth
>  keeping?
>
>  If not, I'm proposing we mark this as deprecated for the next release
>  of Biopython.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Peter
>