[Biopython-dev] Time for Biopython 1.65?

[Tiago Antao]

Not a serious issue, but what about marking as deprecated the MySQLdb
driver? mysql.connector seems to work as well as the non-native one on
Python 2 and it is becoming stable on Python 3 as well.



On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:32:06 +0000
Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Compared to our typical release cycle, we're a bit overdue
> for releasing Biopython 1.65.
> 
> Thanks to the NBDC/DBCLS BioHackathon 2014, I was
> able to spend most of last week working on the Biopython
> pull request and issues backlog - so things are looking much
> better now.
> 
> Things I think we need to fix first:
> 
>  * PhyloXML output under Python 3
>     https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/368
> 
> Things I would like to have:
> 
>  * Evan's lazy loading as an experimental feature
>    https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/356
> 
>  * Proof reading of epydoc's reStructuredText API docs
>    (which should now be much prettier than our last release)
> 
> Things worth wider discussion (and maybe a beta release):
> 
>  * String-like equality for Seq objects
>    https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/359
> 
> Feedback on these or patches on other issues most
> welcome. Is there anything else I've overlooked which
> justifies delaying a release?
> 
> Tiago kindly did the last couple of releases, but unless
> we have another volunteer I am willing to do this one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
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