Re: Dropping Jython support? Was: Ideas for Biopython 2.0

OK, let's do that then. Thanks,

Peter

P.S. Are you getting any failure emails from mailman?
Your recent messages are not (yet) on the archive, e.g.
none linked to this thread - perhaps down to which email
address you send from?

http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2017-June/thread.html#21744


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Tiago Antão <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would deprecate it for sure. Even if our code works, it's a severely
> impaired platform as most of the scientific Python libraries are not
> available
>
> On Jun 19, 2017 9:32 AM, "Peter Cock" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Tiago Antão <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Some comments:
>> >
>> > 9. As the person with the biggest number of users on Jython, I say:
>> > forget supporting it.
>>
>> This is an important point - thank you for making it Tiago!
>>
>> Would you advocate being even more proactive? We could deprecate
>> Jython support in the upcoming Biopython 1.70 release?
>>
>> Currently our TravisCI setup does not use Jython (there was a tox bug
>> which prevented it, but that has been fixed not I think), and our buildbot
>> machines currently fail on Jython due to various quirks for which we
>> have not yet worked around in the test suite.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter

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