[Bioperl-l] question about the nature of bioperl

[Allen Day]

> >a general repository for an ad hoc collection of unsupported scripts and
> >modules that don't fit into the central framework?
> 
> I love this idea, though I would be in favor of reviews for redundancy (10 
> scripts doing exactly the same thing from different people would not be 
> beneficial, although maybe 2-3 scripts doing the same thing in procedural and 
> OO ways would be useful) and basic quality of the Perl itself.

I think /scripts in the bioperl-live project is where these things are
supposed to go.  I remember having a discussion about this a couple of
years ago at ISMB, and there was lots of enthusiasm, but no one was
willing to step up to the plate to maintain a script archive.

-Allen