[Biopython-dev] Draft announcement for Biopython 1.68

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Other than perhaps rebuilding the tar and zip files to include a
>> tiny update to the NEWS file (adding release date, plus we
>> should thank Ben for building Windows binaries), I think we're
>> almost ready to announce Biopython 1.68.
>>
>> Lluís Revilla has kindly tested building from the tar-ball on
>> Linux with Python 2.7,
>>
>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2016-August/021538.html
>
> Another minor issue reported via GitHub:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/919
>
>> It would be nice have an independent test of a Windows
>> MSI and EXE installer as well...
>
> A colleague tested the Python 2.7 EXE and that worked fine.
>
> Peter

Website updated,

http://biopython.org/wiki/Download

About to turn the announcement into a blog post - which I think
should include the checksums too.

Peter