[BiO BB] open source ideas

[Joel Dudley]

Alright already! I'll code it. :-)  I am mainly a Unix programmer but
Window's programming is easy so I can whip something together. There are
some cross platform GUI toolkits like Motif or GTK but I am unsure about
their quirks between platforms. I will probably write it in Visual C++
unless I find a better cross-platform solution (which would be preferred
since I use Linux on all my machines).  Maybe I can come up with my own
simple widget set using a cross-platform graphics library like SDL. I will
post the program to this list when I have the first alpha version done.  I
know PHP just as well but PHP+Apache can be a bear for the non-sysadmin
savvy (even though it is very cool). I guess this would be a good time for
an informal poll. What OS do you use for your daily Desktop?

- Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: bioinfo [mailto:bioinfo at biosystemsconsulting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 6:31 AM
To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
Subject: RE: [BiO BB] open source ideas

Hello,
	If you do I would love to see it and use it when it is complete.

Mark Burke

-----Original Message-----
From: bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org
[mailto:bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org]On Behalf Of
Indraneel Majumdar
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:14 AM
To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
Subject: Re: [BiO BB] open source ideas


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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