[Bioperl-l] New code

[Ewan Birney]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Chris Mungall wrote:

> 
> I have committed scripts/bioperl.pl
> 
> (name isn't final, just wanted to get the code out there; also not sure
> about the whole release schedule thing - should it be rolled back for that
> as it's still unfinished code)

Cool. Is this more like bioperl_shell.pl sort of thing?

> 
> this is a command line interface to bioperl, the easiest way to get a
> handle on it is to fire it up and type "demo"
> 
> still a ways to go yet but you should get the basic idea
> 
> I didn't make much use of Bio::Perl as I needed some really hacky
> subroutines that play around with global variables (I know they're
> generally evil but I think it's justified in this context)
> 

Agreed. I can imagine that they are needed...