Re: Biopython 1.68 plans (mid August?)

Thanks Ben,

I used to use cygwin on Windows XP, and I would certainly
be giving Windows Ubuntu Bash a test if I had a Windows 10
machine - a very interesting development. I presume it can
run its own copy of a (Linux Ubuntu) Python too?

Peter

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Fulton, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I can do the installers (although I am moving away from strict Windows to Windows Ubuntu Bash).
>
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> Ben Fulton
> Research Technologies
> Scientific Applications and Performance Tuning
> Indiana University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Biopython-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Cock
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 5:15 AM
> To: Biopython-Dev Mailing List <[email protected]>; Christian Brueffer <[email protected]>; Ben Fulton <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: [Biopython-dev] Biopython 1.68 plans (mid August?)
>
> Dear Biopythoneers,
>
> The NCBI plan to switch to HTTPS on 1 September 2016, so it
> would be good to get a new Biopython release out before that
> with the changes to use HTTPS by default (which we know
> works).
>
> To that end, I would like us to do the Biopython 1.68 release
> this month (August), perhaps aiming for next week?
>
> Christian - we talked briefly about this at BOSC 2016 - but
> would you be willing to try to work though the currently release
> instructions (as far as possible without pushing any changes
> to GitHub or PyPI) to help pin point what I have left unclear
> with the recent website changes?
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>
> Ben - would you be able to build the Windows installers
> again please?
>
> Bow - are you ready to remove the experimental warning
> from Bio.SearchIO? Or at least, most of it - I know you have
> some changes in mind for the Exonerate parser:
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/815
>
> Everyone - is there anything urgent we need to review and
> merge? What am I overlooking? There are lots of pull
> requests we could merge, and some are close to ready.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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