[BiO BB] open source ideas

[Indraneel Majumdar]

Hi,
You're right, possibly it'll make sense to keep this sort of
thing stand alone. It releases the user from the clutches of the
web admin. Also if one is content with a text interface, then it will be
platform independent, I guess perl has posix conformance. And with the
possibility of implementing things as modules, this can really be
scaleable. (Of course i don't know Java, so am supporting perl).
Now to find someone to code it!

\indraneel

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:56:09PM -0400, bioinfo wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I agree it could be expanded to a much larger submission / compilation
> tool.  I considered creating the application using Perl / CGI scripts with a
> Web interface and I came to the conclusion that it would be more user
> friendly if anyone could install it on their local machine and run a
> graphical interface that allowed easy director selection and data entry for
> the header files.  While writing it as a Visual application does limit it to
> the windows platform if it were written in Java with an installer that
> queried the system for OS type then it could install the necessary Java
> components and it could run essentially platform independent.  Anyway, I
> would love to see this program as an independent application rather than as
> PERL scripts on a website.
> 
> Mark Burke

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