[Biopython-dev] Preparing for Biopython 1.67

[Peter Cock]

Hello again,

That time plan failed due to the sudden need to do the website migration.

However, if you've been watching the commits on GitHub you might
have guessed from things like cleaning up the warnings from the test
suite, recently I've been focusing on getting ready for Biopython 1.67.

It may be tempting fate, but I hope to do the release next week -
and in the process update the instructions where needed due to
the website move to GitHub pages:

http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release

On a related note, does anyone have any thoughts on how we
have been tagging the releases so far in git? i.e. annotated tags
versus the currently used "lightweight tags", see:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython.github.io/issues/56

Thanks,

Peter

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Biopythoneers,
>
> As is often the case, putting together the BOSC project update abstract
> reminds me that we should also put out another Biopython release.
> I'm a little embarrassed to realise it has been almost six month since
> the Biopython 1.66 release in October 2015.
>
> Since we always try to keep the master branch on GitHub in as stable
> condition, I think we are OK to do the release next week.
>
> Could you all take a moment to look over the NEWS entry and see if
> there is anything note worthy not mentioned, anything is unclear, or if
> we have overlooked any contributors:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/NEWS
>
> I can probable make time to handle the release next week - but
> would like to ask Ben Fulton to handle the Windows installers again
> (particularly for Python 3.5 as I still don't have access to a suitable
> machine for those).
>
> Ben: Are you happy to do this, and do you have any preferences
> or restrictions on your availability? (We can discuss this off list
> if you like)
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>
> At this point I don't propose to make any changes to our release
> process, but am aware than NumPy is starting to release pre-compiled
> builds as wheel files via PyPI. As our main dependency, and a compile
> time dependency, this is something we should look at in future. Is
> anyone interested in working on this? The goal would be a quick
> painless "pip install biopython" without needing a compiler etc.
>
> Note that in line with our deprecation policy, we deprecated support
> for Python 2.6 with Biopython 1.66 (October 2015), so Biopython 1.67
> will still support Python 2.6.  We're then planning to drop Python 2.6
> in the first release after October 2016:
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter