[Biopython-dev] Deprecating Bio.PDB.Dice

[Peter Cock]

Applied to master.

Peter

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Pull request to do this is here:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/1166
>
> Issue to reuse the code is here:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/1167
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This came up in discussion on GitHub issue #820 [*] about turning
>> existing self-tests into proper unit tests for user under TravisCI etc.
>>
>> Bio/PDB/Dice.py is essentially an example of how to write your
>> own selector for use with PDBIO to write a subset of a PDB file.
>>
>> We are proposing to formally deprecate Bio.PDB.Dice (and later
>> remove it [**]), and ideally reuse this as an example script and/or
>> test case.
>>
>> If anyone is using the Dice module, please let us know.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> [*] https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/820
>> [**] http://biopython.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy