[BioPython] Plans for release 0.95d01

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:31:29 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Johann Visagie wrote:

> Jeffrey Chang on 2001-02-02 (Fri) at 12:09:10 -0800:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:
> > 
> > > Similarly for Perl, though the whole concept of "Bundles" makes life
> > > much easier, and CPAN.pm makes installing dependencies very easy...
> > 
> > Yep.  I vaguely recall a few years ago someone complaining that lacking
> > CPAN is a large problem with python, and it's still true...
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.  I personally believe that much of the functionality
> provided by CPAN.pm "belongs in the operating system".  But that is another
> (ongoing) argument entirely.

aha.... the benefits of BSD* ports....



> 
> -- Johann
> 

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