retirement

Author: molpopgen

README.md

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+##This is a retired package
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+As of July 13, 2015, this package is "retired" and will no longer be supported or maintained.
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+The programs in this package have their origin in the days of using Sanger sequencing to study genetic variation.  The movement towards short-read-based resequencing means that software like this may not be applicable to modern data sets based on modest coverage.
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+This software did its job for a decade or more, and still has some use in certain applications, but it is time to stop supporting it.
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+"Retired" means that this code:
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+* Will no longer be updated to track the development of [libsequence](http://github.com/molpopgen/libsequence).
+* Bugs will not be fixed, unless they trace back to libsequence itself.
+* Installation issues, etc., will not be dealt with
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 ##The "analysis" package
 
 This is the homepage for __analysis__, which is a set of C++ tools for analyzing population-genetic data