Re: [Samtools-help] Impending move of Picard to GitHub, and Picard restructuring

[Alec W. <al...@br...>]

Hi Louis,

We don't have any planes to push to maven repository at this time.

-Alec

On Apr 29, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Louis Letourneau <lou...@ma...> wrote:

> That will be great! I'll bring up an old question, since this moves
> clearly seperates libs from apps, well there be plans to push htsjdk to
> the maven repository by any chance?
> 
> Louis
> 
> On 14-04-29 02:00 PM, Alec Wysoker wrote:
>> Hi Picard community,
>> 
>> Some major changes to the Picard project will be happening this weekend
>> 3 May -- 4 May.  The motivations for these changes are the following:
>> 
>>  * More clearly separate API code from programs to provide a compact
>>    usable API for next gen sequencing informatics in Java.
>>  * Prepare for the merger of the sam-jdk and cram-jdk codebases.
>>  * Switch from Subversion hosted on Sourceforge to Git hosted on
>>    GitHub, to facilitate collaborative software development.
>> 
>> The following changes will be made:
>> 
>>  * Picard source will be moving from Sourceforge to GitHub.  Picard
>>    binaries will continue to be published to Sourceforge.
>>  * The package structure will change: 
>>      o htsjdk package will contain SAM, BAM, Tribble and VCF code.
>>         Repository: https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk
>>      o picard package will contain command-line tools.
>>        Repository: https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard
>>  * There will be two library jars: htsjdk and picard, in contrast to
>>    the current organization where sam-jdk, tribble and vcf are in
>>    separate jars.
>>  * There will be some movement of code from the current picard package
>>    into the htsjdk package.
>> 
>> 
>> Other things to be aware of:
>> 
>>  * Eventually htsjdk will support other file formats, e.g. CRAM.
>>  * The new source repositories may be unstable for the next 2 weeks or so.
>>  * Legacy source code will still be available on Sourceforge for a while.
>> 
>> 
>> These changes should not affect users of the command-line tools, only
>> users of the libraries and source code.
>> 
>> Please let us know if you have questions or concerns.
>> 
>> Thanks, Alec
>> 
>> 
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