[BioPython] Bio.MetaTool

[Peter]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Is anybody using the Bio.MetaTool module? If not, can we deprecate it?
>
> The Bio.MetaTool tests suggest that this module was written for MetaTool
> version 3.5 (28.03.2001), while the most current MetaTool version is at 5.0.
> Since MetaTool is written for Matlab/Octave, and it seems to be out of data,
> I expect that few people are using it with Python.
>
> Currently, Bio.MetaTool is the only non-deprecated module in Biopython
> that uses Martel. If we can deprecate Bio.MetaTool, then (over time) we
> can deprecate Martel, which means that Biopython won't need the
> mxTextTools any more, making Biopython's installation a lot easier.

I have now deprecated Bio.MetaTool in CVS.  If anyone is still using
this, please
speak up.  I have also marked Bio.Mindy and Martel as obsolete (documentation
changes only - no warning messages), and likely to be deprecated or removed in
a future release.

Peter