Hilmar writes:
Triggered by what happened during the hackathon in Singapore, the Bioperl Ontology object model needs to undergo a number of changes that I’m going to describe below, along with a proposal how to resolve the issues. I have largely implemented the proposal and barring major objections I’m ready to commit tonight or tomorrow morning. Even though some of these things significantly change the API, we (I, backed by the core people) propose to migrate these changes over to the ‘stable’ 1.2 branch, to be able to release bioperl-db (bridges to the biosql schema) in dependency on a stable bioperl branch.
The full post can be read at: http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2003-February/011337.html