Stable ete4 release

[Zethson]

Hi,

I have a package that is dependent on ete3 and I'm still getting lots of reports from people that have trouble installing my package because they can't install ete3. Be it Macs or even Intel/Amd based clusters.

I am hoping that more installation issues will be resolved with ete4 which, if I read correctly, no longer has pyqt dependencies. I was wondering what the timeline for a stable ete4 release is given that you put out a 4.1.0 pre-release already?

Thank you very much!

[jhcepas]

Hi Lukas,
thanks for contacting.
Yes, all our efforts are currently on ete4. Depending on how you are using ete3, you could consider migrating to ete4 now, as many things are already stable. But, some syntax has changed and a few modules are not fully migrated/tested yet. We could advise on the migration if that helps. May I ask what is your project and what ete3 features does it use?
thanks!

[Zethson]

Thanks!

We could advise on the migration if that helps. May I ask what is your project and what ete3 features does it use? thanks!

This is the project: https://github.com/theislab/pertpy and it's only used in here: https://github.com/theislab/pertpy/blob/main/pertpy/tools/_coda/_base_coda.py. It's probably fine if you just CTRL-F ete3 in that file. We're not using a lot of features.

I'd be very happy if you could help us migrate (maybe even with a quick PR?) but to be able to make releases of pertpy, we'd need an ete4 candidate on pypi.

Thanks again!