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droazen
@jonn-smith has volunteered to review this old branch, as he is finding the lack of tribble writing support quite awkward in his current project.
@magicDGS I think we'd be happy to accept any patch that improves htsjdk support for VCF4.3, and the changes you mention sound good to me.
You're welcome to take any or all of those tickets on if you like, @magicDGS, but I recommend making each individual branch/pull request as small and specific as possible, with...
@tomwhite htsjdk does not support the latest BCF spec -- we should probably change the parser to throw if it encounters an unsupported BCF. I suspect that there are ways...
Your surprise is very justified!
@akiezun I believe so, yes (though we should confirm with the TileDB guys). In any event, the `BCF2Codec` is only capable of reading, so writing is not covered by this...
We really hope to be able to assign an engineer to work on this this quarter, but can't make any firm promises at this time. The work has been started...
@chriswhelix That branch is a work in progress that definitely shouldn't be used for anything except testing purposes -- @cmnbroad can provide more details on its current status.
This ticket is for @nenewell (unfortunately github won't let me assign it to you explicitly).