[Biocorba-l] going for bioperl biocorba 0.2 compliance

[Brad Chapman]

Hi Jason!

> I'm about to start doing the implementation for bioperl to comply to the
> IDL.  

Cool -- it will be very nice to see it. Let me know if I can be of help in
debugging, etc.

> Do we have a place where the latest version is checked in?  I
> started a cvs module called biocorba-idls, is that the right version? 

I'm not sure about the biocorba-idls version (no CVS access right now),
but I used the version at:

http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/BioCorba-0.2.0/BioCorba-0.2.idl

for the biopython stuff. I had a slightly different version from somewhere
(possibly from CVS), but this seems to be the most up-to-date version and
is also what I think Alan used for his EMBL server.

> Do
> you think we'll want to revist the IDL after the bioperl implementation,
> do we need to mimic the the more complex location handling of bioperl now?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I personally would be happy to see
IDL changes as we work if we discover things we want to change. Now is
definately the time to change them before anyone relies on the IDL for
actual work (which I will eventually -- but I'm not sure if my research
counts as real work :-). It is no big deal for me to make changes to the
Biopython stuff now to incorporate new ideas.

Brad