[BioPython] Bio.MultiProc
Michiel de Hoon
mdehoon at c2b2.columbia.edu
Tue Sep 11 14:37:57 UTC 2007
Hi everybody,
In preparation for the upcoming release, I was running the Biopython
test suite and found that test_copen.py hangs on Cygwin. It doesn't
fail, it just sits there forever. This may be related to the use of
fork() instead of select() in Bio/MultiProc/copen.py. Anyway, while it
is probably possible to fix this, I'd have to dig fairly deep into the
code, and I am not sure if it is worth it. It looks like the copen
functions are used only in Bio/config, which is needed for Bio.db. A
description of the functionality of thia module can be found in the
tutorial section 4.7.2.
Now, I don't remember users asking about this module on the mailing
list. From the tutorial documentation, it seems to be a nice piece of
code, but I doubt that it is being used often in practice.
So I was wondering:
1) Is anybody on this list using this code?
2) If not, can I mark it as deprecated for the upcoming release?
Hopefully, people who are using this code will notice, and let us know
that they need it.
--Michiel.
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