[Biopython] Declaring Bio.trie, Bio.triefind obsolete

[Peter Cock]

Thanks Michiel,

This seems like a good idea to me - I think we've already
dual licensed all the Bio.trie / Bio.triefind files, so someone
could fork the code and release it standalone under the
BSD 3-clause license if they wanted to:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/1658

For anyone unfamiliar with our deprecation process, see:

http://biopython.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy

Thanks,

Peter

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have submitted a pull request (#1658) declaring Bio.trie and Bio.triefind
> obsolete, for the following reasons:
> - There is no active maintainer who can fix the bugs
> - There are good alternatives outside of Biopython, such as pygtrie;
> - These modules do not depend on any other module in Biopython, and vice
> versa;
> - Bio.trie cannot be compiled on PyPy;
> - There is no documentation in the Biopython cookbook & tutorial.
>
> If you have any objections against declaring these modules obsolete (and at
> a later stage deprecating and removing them), please write a note on the
> pull request page.
>
> Thanks,
> -Michiel
>