[Bioperl-l] question about the nature of bioperl

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, nkuipers wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.  I am relatively new to open source development and had 
> not considered that bit about "no one praises you".  I started looking into 
> bioperl a little while ago, and asked my supervisor why we don't use it.  His 
> answer was that using anything from bioperl seems to require lots of other 
> things used just so; in other words, it's too intertwined with itself.  And 
> indeed, between CPAN modules for parsing etc. and our own code, we do well 
> enough, seemingly more simply.  Your points were all well made however, I 
> appreciate the insight.  I personally am interested in further exploring 
> bioperl.


Actually the main parts of Bioperl doesn't need a great deal to work,
though we have a pretty hard dependancy on IO::String. The bioperl 
makefile tries really hard to say 


 "You wont be able to use Bio::Bizarre::WeirdThing but -- don't worry 
about it, we don't!"


but I guess people get scared. Bioperl does need to come in a big firm 
pink book with the words


  "DONT PANIC"


on the front. 


Have you tried bioperl?




> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nathanael Kuipers
> 
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