v1.1.alpha09: many new features and fixes
18 Oct 2011, by ErickThis release was a long time coming, and it’s a doozy: 63 closed issues and 480-ish commits. The changelog entry is 200 lines, so I’m not going to go over all of it here. Here are some highlights:
- There are now three binaries, with
rppr
being the new kid.rppr
stands for Reference Package PReparer, and it consequently has functionality that is relevant for working with reference pacakges. - Version 2 of the JSON placement format.
- There is now a way of keeping all of your placements in one placefile but splitting them apart in various ways, see the guppy docs on ‘split’ placefiles for that. There may be a bit of a learning curve but it’s proven very useful for us.
- Virtual placefiles and command line substitution in batch files.
- It’s now possible to have a named mass rather than a list of names associated with a collection of placements.
guppy mft
is a new command for transforming these masses.- Classification is our latest version, but we’re still tweaking it, so stay tuned.
rppr convexify
describes phylogeny/taxonomy discordance andrppr reroot
does taxonomic rooting, as described in the corresponding paper.
For those of you who are compiling from source, there is a new version of the installation script. We’ve upgraded to OCaml 3.12 and started using the Batteries library, and this script will bring things up to date.