[Bioperl-l] Packaging Bio::Ext::HMM for CPAN, was Re: Problems with Bioperl-ext package on WinVista?

[Yee Man Chan]

Is it going to be an arrangement similar to bioconductor? If so, I suppose then it makes sense. But you might want to develop scripts to automatically download and install new modules to make it user friendly.

What do you mean by Bio-Ext is going away? I notice quite many people using dpAlign. So if Bio-Ext is going away, then at least dpAlign should become another spin off.

Yee Man

--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> From: Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: Packaging Bio::Ext::HMM for CPAN, was Re: [Bioperl-l] Problems with Bioperl-ext package on WinVista?
> To: "Yee Man Chan" <ymc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu>, "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 9:13 PM
> Yee Man Chan wrote:
> > I think it is better to keep Bio-Tools-HMM within the
> Bio-Ext package and then spin this whole Bio-Ext package out
> to CPAN. I am ok with Robert's arrangement to move the
> related pm files under Bio/Tools/ to the new Bio-Ext
> package.
> 
> The long-term development plan is to factor *ALL* of
> Bioperl into individual distributions similar to
> Bio-Tools-HMM.  It is actually much easier to maintain
> and release code in this "broken up" way.
> 
> This means that the Bio-Ext package is going to go away, so
> it doesn't make sense to keep Bio-Tools-HMM in it. 
> Chris, other core devs, do you agree with this?
> 
> > I have a PAUSE already due to my other CPAN
> contributions. So there is no need to create a new one. My
> PAUSE account is UMVUE.
> Oh good, the next step would just be to coordinate when to
> do the release in concert with Bioperl 1.6.1, right?
> 
> Rob
> 
>