[BioPython] Working on Fnorb WAS:Bioperl-guts: revised idl

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Brad Chapman wrote:

>     I've been doing a lot of lurking on this and the other bio*.org 
> list serves, but thought I would speak up about this since I've been 
> looking for something I might be able to contibute to biopython.

Great!

>     I've been watching with interest the thread on the bioperl-guts 
> about Ewan's idl proposal, since I think it is an excellent idea, and 
> since I've been looking for an opportunity to get some experience 
> coding CORBA stuff. So, although I don't have any first hand CORBA 
> experience (great credentials, I know :-) I've been doing a lot of 
> reading up on things, and have been playing around with the Fnorb 
> examples, kind of waiting for some CORBA coding opportunity to come my 
> way.

Sounds like this would be a perfect opportunity for you.  You'd get to
learn some CORBA stuff, while making a valuable contribution to biopython.

As I warned Ewan, there's nothing in the CVS tree currently to support the
IDL.  There are ideas lurking in the mailing list archives, though.


>     So anyways, I'd be very interested in trying to get the biopython 
> code (whatever there is of it--I'm in the dark about what is completed 
> since I don't have cvs access) compliant with the proposed idl, if you 
> all would like to have a beginner give it a shot...

Yep.  The anonymous CVS server should be available *real soon* now.  I'll
send a message on this list when it's up.

Jeff