[Biopython-dev] 1.57 release plans

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
> Peter;
>
> [Windows installers]
>> They're up. I included one for Python 2.4 put stuck 'unsupported'
>> at the end of its filename.
>
> Awesome, thanks much.
>
>> I'm wondering if we should make a couple for Python 3.1 and 3.2
>> but clearly mark them as alpha quality? Perhaps a little branch
>> on github just to change the version to 1.57a and edit the setup.py
>> description?
>
> This is a good idea and could help us get a sense of if people are
> using Python 3 yet.
>
>> Speaking of which, I found our first bug: I didn't add do2to3.py
>> to the manifest, so it isn't included in the tar ball or zip. This
>> means you can't install from a source release under Python 3.
>> Not a big issue as we haven't claimed to support Python 3 yet:
>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/4b1cc1e501a136188c41c1345c1d22ceb11cdb0c
>
> Whoops. Should we freshen up the tarballs with this or wait until
> the next release?

I'm tempted to leave it as is. Anyone keen to use Biopython from
source under Python 3 can try from git.

> For your manifest fix, we should add do2to3.py to the MANIFEST.in
> instead of checking in the MANIFEST directly, since the MANIFEST is
> generated during building the release.

Good catch - that's what I meant to do, I guess I missed the extension
in my git add command (over reliant on tab auto completion). Fixed now.

Peter