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Remove `sc.external`

Open flying-sheep opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

External has outlived its usefulness with the emergence of the scverse ecosystem, and should be removed.

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TODO

  • [ ] Finalize methods to keep/ merge into main namespace
    • Currently: scanorama, hashsolo, scrublet or equivalent, maybe bbknn
  • [ ] Make removal plan (probably deprecation message + maybe email to authors) for
    • [ ] harmony
    • [ ] dca
    • [ ] magic
    • [ ] phate
    • [ ] palantir
    • [ ] trimap
    • [ ] sam
    • [ ] phenograph
    • [ ] wishbone
    • [ ] sandbag
    • [ ] cyclone
    • [ ] Export functionality for
      • [ ] spring_project
      • [ ] cellbrowser

flying-sheep avatar Oct 26 '23 11:10 flying-sheep

@Intron7 you said you have a sense which ones are still used.

Could you please weigh in here?

flying-sheep avatar Oct 30 '25 14:10 flying-sheep

TODO: create sub-issues for all tools and invite feedback by maintainers and users

  • what’s still maintained (and therefore people should use the upstream one)
  • what’s unmaintained but still used (and therefore we should take over)

flying-sheep avatar Oct 30 '25 14:10 flying-sheep