[BioPython] New biopython-corba release

[Brad Chapman]

Hello all;

I'm happy to announce a new release of the biopython-corba
bindings. These provide CORBA interoperability between the various
bio* projects. Biopython-corba features support for the BioCorba
standard, making it easy to write both clients and servers. It also
comes with lots of documentation on getting started with CORBA in
general, and using biopython-corba in particular.

The latest release is available for download from the standard place:

http://www.biopython.org/Download/

Documentation and more information is also available on the wiki site
at:

http://biopython.org/wiki/html/BioPython/BiopythonCorba.html

The new release has a lot of changes over the previous, including:

* Now interoperates with bioperl through the biocorba-0.2 interface. An
extensive test suite is included.

* Support for communicating with Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org)
through the developing ensembl IDL interface. This support is not
complete, but many things work.

* Lots of fixes for memory management on the server side. Servers now
release extraneous objects, so no more memory problems. Tests on
iterating through the Arabidopsis genome showed no substantial increases in
memory (previously it would use up all your memory :-).

* Added initial support for using the ORBit-python bindings. Things
don't work completely yet, but some basic things do work. If anyone
is interested, I'd appreciate help picking out what things are bugs 
in my code and which are bugs in ORBit or ORBit-python.


I'd really appreciate any feedback. If anyone is interested in this 
and has problems getting started, I'd be more than happy to provide 
help and answer questions. Enjoy!

Brad