[Bioperl-l] scripts/ and examples/ are merged

Lincoln Stein lstein@cshl.org
Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:17:30 -0400


Hi Brian,

I'm not entirely happy about this.  The last I looked there were lots of 
scripts in examples that were not industrial strength and really did require 
"some assembly."  I will go ahead and flag the ones that I think should be 
removed for real (or moved back into examples).

Lincoln

On Monday 26 August 2002 09:11 am, Brian Osborne wrote:
> bioperl-l,
> I'd written earlier that the scripts/ and examples/ directories were mostly
> indistinguishable. The initial intention was to put POD-ed, "industrial
> strength" scripts in scripts, everything else in examples, but this wasn't
> working out. Now everything's in scripts/, examples/ is gone, and there's a
> new file called bioscripts.pod which is a POD-ed version of the list of
> scripts that was previously in bioperl.pod, it was invisible there. Now
> scripts/ is loosely organized into directories that roughly mirror the Bio
> directory: "align", "tools", and so on. If you had submitted some scripts
> together in a directory (e.g. "das", "seq", "biblio") then the directory is
> unchanged, nothing was added to it. A couple of scripts didn't compile, I
> removed them and I'll contact the authors, see if they'd like to try again.
> And the contributed/ directory is still there, this is for scripts that
> don't use Bioperl.
> All in all this is a very nice collection of scripts and you might want to
> peruse it and look for missing functionality, then contribute any of your
> own to fill in the gaps.
> Brian O.
>
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