[BioRuby] participation in GSoC 2010

[Christian M Zmasek]

Hi:

This is probably a naive question, but I was wondering if the plan is to 
drop 1.8 support eventually, or is the idea to maintain support for 1.8 
indefinitely?

Christian


Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Welcome Kazuhiro,
> 
> I am glad you take on this job. My main concern would be we don't
> sprinkle 'if-then' blocks throughout the code base. I think the
> challenge is to have one code base for Ruby 1.8, 1.9 and JRuby without
> having code exceptions. That should be the top priority. 
> 
> Where it is not possible to avoid two code paths, find ways of
> isolating the issue in one single 'architecture' file - e.g. in
> ./lib/bio/ruby1.8.rb and ./lib/bio/ruby1.9.rb.
> 
> Only in the few instances there are real performance concerns I would
> diverge from such a strategy.
> 
> I don't know how they handle it in Rails, but I would take hints from
> there.
> 
> Pj.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 01:12:42PM +0900, Kazuhiro Hayashi wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> My name is Kazuhiro Hayashi.
>> I'm a graduate student at The University of Tokyo, majoring in
>> Computational Biology.
>> The proposal which I submitted to GSoC 2010 was accepted yesterday.
>>
>> The topic of the proposal is "Ruby 1.9.2 support of BioRuby".
>> I would like to make BioRuby work in Ruby 1.9.2 .
>> Currently, a lot of classes in BioRuby lack unit tests.
>> First, I'll make them in order to confirm behaviors of the classes.
>> Then, modify the classes as they work in Both Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 .
>> I'll work on the documentation too.
>>
>> the abstract of my proposal is here.
>> http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/obf/t127230761332
>>
>> I'm glad I can work on this project as one of BioRuby developers.
>> Thank you for selecting me.
>>
>> Kazuhiro
>>
>> -- 
>> Kazuhiro Hayashi
>> Department of Computational Biology,  The University of Tokyo
>> email: k_hayashi at cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
>> tel: 04-7136-3988
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