[Biopython-dev] Biopython 1.60 plans and beyond

[Peter Cock]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> To encourage wider testing under Python 3, are people comfortable
>> with releasing Windows installers - but with beta in the filename?
>
> That reminds me of my uber-stalled task of windows 64 bit. I will
> re-pick this up soon (promises, promises... But I will try to keep
> this one).

That would be nice - although I'm not sure how many of our dependencies
are available as 64bit Windows installers yet.

> Another idea for after could maybe be the gems thing? I really have no
> technical notion of how to better do this in Python, but I can see
> interesting use cases...

Python packaging remains very much up in the air :(

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/120430.html
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/
http://cournape.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/why-setuptools-does-not-matter-to-me/

Peter