[Biopython-dev] Next biopython release (was Re: Python 3.4)

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Manlio Calvi <manlio.calvi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Manlio Calvi wrote:
>>> Sorry for my disappearance, my schedules are a bit hectic this period.
>>> However, I'm build and tested 2.7 and 3.4 on x64 win7 machine and I
>>> have nothing to report, all clear.
>>
>> Excellent news - thanks you!
>>
>> (although did the C modules get tested under Python 3?)
>
> Looking better at the log, it does.

Oh good :)

> The only issue I detect is in 3.4 and it is a serie of occurrencies of this:
> file://C:\Users\Public\BioPython3\biopython\Tests\CDAO\test.cdao does
> not look like a valid URI, trying to serialize this will break.
>
> However the test is passed.
> Here the problem is the portability of backslash, I think is better
> change to forwardslash, they should works on Windows and are more
> portable.

Yes, I agree:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/320

>>> I tried to install all the tools I
>>> could on my machine to test more throughtly.
>>> I plan to test on last Pypy when I found a bit of time soon.
>>>
>>> Manlio
>>
>> Great. Now that you the system is OK to compile and test on
>> 64bit Windows, it would be great to get the buildslave working
>> to automate this for nightly tests...
>
> That's the next thing I'll setup when I found a bit of consecutive
> time to apply to it. Sorry, I coundn't tell exactly when at the
> moment, I'll try to do as soon as possible.
>
> Manlio

That's fine - your help so far has already been useful :)

If you are happy with this, we could add you to the NEWS file entry
in recognition of your 64 bit Windows testing?

Thanks,

Peter