[Biopython-dev] Dropping Jython support? Was: Ideas for Biopython 2.0

[Peter Cock]

OK, let's do that then. Thanks,

Peter

P.S. Are you getting any failure emails from mailman?
Your recent messages are not (yet) on the archive, e.g.
none linked to this thread - perhaps down to which email
address you send from?

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would deprecate it for sure. Even if our code works, it's a severely
> impaired platform as most of the scientific Python libraries are not
> available
>
> On Jun 19, 2017 9:32 AM, "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Some comments:
>> >
>> > 9. As the person with the biggest number of users on Jython, I say:
>> > forget supporting it.
>>
>> This is an important point - thank you for making it Tiago!
>>
>> Would you advocate being even more proactive? We could deprecate
>> Jython support in the upcoming Biopython 1.70 release?
>>
>> Currently our TravisCI setup does not use Jython (there was a tox bug
>> which prevented it, but that has been fixed not I think), and our buildbot
>> machines currently fail on Jython due to various quirks for which we
>> have not yet worked around in the test suite.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter