Sorting order for GenomicRegion

[andrewdavidsmith]

I think it is now time to change the comparator operators for GenomicRegion and SimpleGenomicRegion. We have been sorting many things now based on the start, then end. @songqiang will feel vindicated by this, but that's ok because I wish he was still working just down the hall...

[timydaley]

I have been sorting this way for a few years now. Primarily for
compatibility with samtools.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Smith [email protected]
wrote:

I think it is now time to change the comparator operators for
GenomicRegion and SimpleGenomicRegion. We have been sorting many things now
based on the start, then end. @songqiang https://github.com/songqiang
will feel vindicated by this, but that's ok because I wish he was still
working just down the hall...

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[andrewdavidsmith]

I think we all have, but we have been using different functions than the operator<()

[songqiang]

With this change, we would expect fewer user questions about "ERROR: reads not sorted" :-)