[BioPython] Plans for release 0.95d01

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Thomas:
> >What I'd like to avoid is a common feature in tcl and perl,
> >that if you want to install a package you need to pre-install
> >just one package. But this package happens to depend on
> >3 other packages which are again depending on other things ...
> >That will keep a lot of people from just trying biopython.
> 
> Though to point out, biojava has similar problems since
> they depend on the xerxes XML package.  I think.  I don't
> believe there is a good general system, although there seem
> to be some specific ones (like ports) which solve most of
> the problem but aren't widely used, which is the biggest
> problem.

Similarly for Perl, though the whole concept of "Bundles" makes life much
easier, and CPAN.pm makes installing dependencies very easy...



> 
> One big shar file, that's all we need.
> 
>                     Andrew
> 
> 
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