that also means there is a need for the maintainers of packages such as galaxy or taverna to be notified and/or make sure when used in a pipeline tophat throws a yuge error.
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Fabian Klötzl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 16.12.2017 15:40, [email protected] wrote: > > There are **plenty** of bioinformaticians and sysadmins, especially > > downstream of Debian who will say “I need tophat”, without being able to > > explain why they do. > > > > > > > > Migration path, big announcement, large time path so everybody gets > > comfortable with it, some sort of way of making sure that google indexes > > the announcement as the first result when someone searches for it. > > > I agree, that some people might be dependent on tophat and we should not > remove an essential components of their workflow. If we want to remove > tophat, we should make it print a warning like “[WARNING] Stop using > tophat: http://some-explanatory.url/”. After that has been out for a few > months, we could make tophat always exit with a non-zero state as to > intentionally break ppls. workflows and make them read the error > message. Finally, after such a grace period, removal might be valid. > > Best, > Fabian >
