[Seqan-dev] Seeds and seed2 - which one for what

[Fabian Buske <f.buske@uq.edu.au>]

Hi Seqan team,

recently a seed2 directory was added to the seqan library in the svn. I
was wondering what its story is. Is it going to replace the existing
seed and seedset templates in the future?  Should I switch my
development to seed2? Is there any further support for the seed(1)
templates (I figured that my reported bug+bugfix has not been
incorporated into the library yet)?

Speaking of the "standard" seedset template. The memory manager used to
store the seeds still gives me a major headache especially when putting
the seedsets into a skiplist and valgrind
(http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/valgrind/) reports memory leaks
(though there seems to be some funny things with pointers going on,
which may confuse valgrind). The new seed2 template don't seem to rely
the memory manager. So it looks natural to switch to the seed2 templates
but I would first like to get a statement from the development team
before I put any effort into adjusting my program.

Looking forward to your comments.

Cheers,
Fabian