Add VariantRecordSample documentation

[TimD1]

This is a documentation-only PR to introduce documentation for the VariantRecordSample class.

• closes how to set values in VariantRecordSamples and VariantRecordFormat ?? #720
• closes VariantRecordSample Documentation #407

[TimD1]

Any ideas why FreeBSD is now failing? Nothing should be changed except docstrings and the api.rst file...

[jmarshall]

Thanks for writing up some documentation.

For no particular reason, the FreeBSD CI workflow installs both build and test prerequisites up front, while others install test prerequisites later between the build and test steps. This means in the FreeBSD CI environment the build occurs with HTSlib htslib/*.h headers installed in /usr/local/include, whereas in the other CI environments samtools/htslib/bcftools are not installed until after the build has occurred.

The FreeBSD-built libcbcftools.cpython-311.so is failing due to a missing bcf_format_gt_v2(), which was introduced in HTSlib 1.22. The FreeBSD htslib package has (recently?) been updated to 1.22, while pysam on master still wraps 1.21.

So the bug here is that (at least on FreeBSD) building the Cython modules has preferred the HTSlib system headers rather than the ones within the pysam build tree. Which is annoying and hopefully easy enough to fix. Also something I didn't realise could be an issue here, so this is a useful heads-up…

[jmarshall]

-CC: "clang -I/usr/local/include"
+CC: "clang"

Yeah, that'd explain it…

This is fixed on master now, so if you rebase your documentation commits on that you can drop your FreeBSD CI patches from this PR.

FYI no need to use conventional commit message annotations in this repository. We'll remove them and put brief meaningful commit message prose instead on merging, so you'd be saving the maintainers work by not using them.

[TimD1]

Great, thanks for the quick fix! Rebased, should be ready to merge.

Regarding conventional commit messages, would you prefer I avoid them just in PR names, or all commits?

[jmarshall]

I've pushed the trivial parts of your api.rst changes (so that the autoclass:: pysam.VariantRecordSample addition will be clearer in the next commit), so you might want to rebase onto current master again please.

Re conventional commit styling on messages: ideally on neither PR titles (we don't use the GitHub setting that (ab)uses PR titles and first comments to override the author's commit messages on merge, so it's just noise in the PRs web page) nor commit messages (we don't find them useful in the commit history).

[TimD1]

I've rebased and made the requested modifications. I'll let you know once I've updated my next two PRs to follow your suggestions.