[Bioperl-l] BioPerl CPAN

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Nathan (Nat) Goodman wrote:

> I agree completely with Ewan's point below:
>
> > The more I think about it, the more I think we should just use the CPAN
> > system as it stands now, and perhaps have (a) some web pages, indicating
> > which CPAN packages are "part" of bioperl (b) announce to the list that
> > people can get CPAN depositing rights as-per-normal and then they should
> > add their module onto a web site list with perhaps a type of
> >
> >    "bioperl-development", "bioperl-scripts" or something.
> >
> > This way, no one needs to set anything up (but a web page...) and it is
> > just about contributions...
>
> My team and I are happy to get the ball rolling here.  We can start with our
> own software (I'm speaking here of work other than GBrowse and related code,
> as Lincoln controls that).  The module that's closest to release is our
> Biblio extension.  It would be good to include some other modules, too, so
> it's not just an ISB thing.  If people will volunteer their modules, we can
> work with them to work out the best way to do it.

that sounds great. What I think we should do is:

  Nat (or someone at ISB...) get a CPAN handle from the CPAN guys. The
Bio:: namespace might be still officially under the control of steve
brenner so he will either need to say ok (are you listening in steve) or
will have to reassign the namespace control to someone closer to the core.


 Someone (perhaps in Nat's group...?) needs to learn from Chris Dag/Jason
where the bioperl web site source code is and how to put up a new page. I
have no idea (... and I want to keep it that way).


  then submit the code away!


What are the Biblo modules like? Are they very similar or different to the
ones from Martin Senger in Bioperl (Have I missed an email about this?).



>
> Best,
> Nat
>
>