{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/685","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/685/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/685/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/685/events","html_url":"https://github.com/genometools/genometools/issues/685","id":117413601,"number":685,"title":"spaces in GFF version string","user":{"login":"satta","id":27732,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/27732?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta","html_url":"https://github.com/satta","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/satta/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-11-17T18:02:15Z","updated_at":"2015-11-17T21:15:02Z","closed_at":null,"body":"GenomeTools outputs three spaces between the `##gff-version` directive and the version number, see:\r\nhttps://github.com/genometools/genometools/blob/master/src/extended/gff3_visitor.c#L76\r\n\r\nWhile the spec does not define the spaces between the directive and the value, some tools are restrictive about this, e.g. Bioconductor’s makeTxDbFromGFF produces as a warning message:\r\n```\r\nWarning message:\r\nIn .local(con, format, text, ...) :\r\n  gff-version directive indicates version is   3, not 3\r\n```\r\nIs there a specific reason why three spaces were chosen?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/comments/157509275","html_url":"https://github.com/genometools/genometools/issues/685#issuecomment-157509275","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/genometools/genometools/issues/685","id":157509275,"user":{"login":"gordon","id":6835,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6835?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon","html_url":"https://github.com/gordon","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gordon/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-17T21:15:02Z","updated_at":"2015-11-17T21:15:02Z","body":"That how the examples were in an early version of the GFF3 specification (see commit 52cb554e0052c064125423f8aad77e8b01b229ca). I'm OK with changing it to one space, our parser can handle both cases."}}