[BioPython] Biopython Citation

[Harry Mangalam]

On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:54, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> > Some of the attraction to users is also dependent on how the
> > different distributions tend to package the contributions and the
> > frequency that they're updated.  I haven't checked the biopython
> > releases recently, but the Ubuntu distro, for example, does a
> > very good job of packaging popular perl modules, with the result
> > that I haven't had to resort to CPAN for a very long time.  Just
> > my (possibly mistaken) impression, but Python utilities and
> > modules seems to be a little less well packaged, at least by
> > Ubuntu.
>
> Just wondering: What's so bad about having resort to CPAN?
>
> --Michiel.

CPAN is a wonderful installation tool rendered almost obsolete by the 
even more wonderful apt-get.  I'd rather not have to deal with 2 
(sometimes) conflicting (or at least complicating) installation 
paths. 

-- 
Cheers, Harry
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