Continued support for this repo

[mwhamgenomics]

I can make sure the tests pass, but I don't have access to an instance of Clarity anymore, so don't have any way of validating new versions IRL. Also not sure if it's still in use at Edinburgh Genomics.

@tbooth - it may be good to review this fork versus the upstream and have a think about what should be done with it

[tbooth]

Hi @mwhamgenomics we are still using the library for some small, specific things, but the code is fossilised so I've not thought about maintaining this repo. I guess for most people they would hope to get a working version with 'pip install ...', so if others are maintaining a better fork then maybe the best thing is to hand them control of the package in PIP. I'm not sure what this involves.

I could test fixes against our Clarity, possibly, but I think bugs are most likely to show against newer Clarity versions and we don't have those, so any prospective maintainer needs to be someone who is running a Clarity server and actually upgrading it.

[mmatthews06]

@tbooth and @mwhamgenomics , is this roughly equivalent to the Semaphore library?
https://github.com/SemaphoreSolutions/s4-clarity-lib

Do you have a list of differences, or are the differences relatively trivial? Was this library created before that one was largely available, or anything like that?

[mwhamgenomics]

Hi @mmatthews06,

I don't know much about that repo. Its first commit is from 2019 though, so it wouldn't have been around at the time we forked this repo. It seems to do a lot of the same things, but does them in different ways behind the scenes and the code's structured slightly differently - so I don't have a list of differences, but the way it's used should have some similarities.

[mmatthews06]

Thank you! That's helpful.