Re: [boost] Genetics library - advice needed.

Subject: Re: [boost] Genetics library - advice needed.
From: Andy Thomason (a.thomason_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-04 11:33:51

Thanks, Rene.

Good feedback.

Yes, I emphasise that this is a prospective library and that I am on
hallowed ground :-)

> Some work is getting done on BPL building that might help out with that.
> Otherwise ask in the Boost Build list if you need help with BBv2 usage.

I look forward to seeing these results. I'll keep the VC projects and
makefile in there until we (hopefully) get approval.

We have a number of users already doing RNA-SEQ and CRISPR searches
(Wikipedia is your friend).

The documentation has to work for someone not familiar with biology.

Andy.

On 04/06/2015 15:29, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Andy Thomason <a.thomason_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I am getting close to rolling out the first draft of our genetics library.
>>
> Interesting :-)
>
> https://github.com/andy-thomason/Boost.Genetics
>> * documentation
>>
> Please make it clear in the readme and docs that this is a "prospective"
> Boost library.
>
> I'd also apreciate help with the build system as getting a build
>> on 64 bit windows is a challenge for Boost.Python at present
>> and some wisdom would go far.
>>
> Some work is getting done on BPL building that might help out with that.
> Otherwise ask in the Boost Build list if you need help with BBv2 usage.
>
> Are there plans for VC2013/15 solution generation from BJAM?
>> That would be useful.
>>
> Not at present.
>
> Is there a continuous integration system we could use to pre-check
>> the library?
>>
> There are some projects that use Travis-CI, and I've been using both
> Travis-CI and Appveyor (and will be trying some others soon) for Predef for
> eventual general use for all libraries. But the regular Boost testing is
> not designed to test non-accepted libraries.
>
>

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