[Biojava-l] Java code ???

[Thomas Down]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:29:12PM +1300, Mark Schreiber wrote:
> I have been developing some objects for personal use, most are still in
> the experimental stage and it sounds like some of the work overlaps that
> of the Sanger centre.
> 
> As someone who is new to this game how would I go about submitting it,
> what are the requirements for documentation etc? Is it even useful??

First of all, hi.  It's good to see some life on this
mailing list :).

I'd certainly be interested to see any code that's around.
Documentation is, of course, a good thing -- I'd argue that
the best approach is to write normal (Sun-style, except maybe
not quite so cryptic...) JavaDoc comments for each class:
JavaDoc output seems quite helpful when you're programming.

At the moment, release mechanisms are basically an open
question.  Three options, really:

  - Just archive everything and put it on your web
    site. (probably the best thing to do at first).
 
  - Look into getting a cvs.biojava.org public repository
    set up (probably a good move in the longer term).

  - (No promises yet but...) it might be possible
    to get CVS set up at the sanger centre, which
    would host the packages we've developed here, plus
    any others that people might like to contribute.

Right now, I can't see any harm in having some
areas of overlap (``There's more than one way to
do things.'').  Ultimately, it might be nice to
have a single standard set of BioJava interfaces
for core concepts such as Sequence -- but it's
probably best to look at all the code that's around
before making any decisions on this.

Happy hacking,

   Thomas.
-- 
``Science is magic that works''  -- Kurt Vonnegut.