John Peter Tapsell wrote: > > They both seem pretty cool. piper seems to be a project to have a pipe > equivalent for gui objects - although it seems to need every program to be > written with support for it. No, this is actually something we've tried to avoid over the years. Programs, files, etc., do not need to be modified. Piper uses meta-data, such as MIME types, in XML. These data are only "attached" to pre-existing programs, files, etc. They are not incorporated. > Anyway, neither conflict or overlap with my project, but I'm looking forward > to going over these and seeing how they are implemented. I think that some of your XML descriptions of input/output are a bit like ours. Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.Org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --