[BioPython] Deprecating Bio.NBRF

[Peter]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Is anyone using Bio.NBRF for reading NBRF/PIR files?
>
> Good news: I've just added support for reading NBRF/PIR files as
> SeqRecord objects to Bio.SeqIO, under the format name "pir" as used in
> EMBOSS and BioPerl.  See enhancement Bug 2535,
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2535
>
> Bad news: I would now like to deprecate the old Bio.NBRF module which
> was an NBRF/PIR parser which generated its own record objects (not
> SeqRecord objects).  The main reason to drop this module is it relies
> on some of Biopython's older parsing infrastructure which depends on
> mxTextTools (and doesn't entirely work with mxTextTools 3.0).
>
> So, if anyone if using Bio.NBRF, please get in touch.
>

I have now deprecated Bio.NBRF in CVS.  Its not to late to revert this
change if anyone missed the last email warning people about this plan.

(Like many other deprecations, even after we remove a module from the
distribution, the old code is still there in CVS, and can be
resurrected if someone really wanted it)

Peter