On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 07:22 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote: > Hey! > > Would anyone object to me pulling the "auto" out of "autocommit"? What the heck are you talking about? > I think it > makes much more sense to have a "COMMIT" button on the main panel than > to have > the process automated. You mean database updating not being live? Which Commit are you worrying about here? > It makes no sense to have commit as part of the > database-only routines, since it is a useless function when working off > of > flat files. Please re-read the above sentence. The second part is true, but the first in no way follows from the second. What do you mean by 'database'? > Then the Context module could respond to a COMMIT event by, for > example, saving a new flat-file containing the new data if that is the > appropriate thing to do... Yes, that is a good idea. Flat files are much more of a 'edit->publish' paradigm than a database which allows edits in-place. > (speaking of which, can BioPerl write Genbank > files, as well as read them? That would be way-cool!) > I'm pretty sure it does - SeqIO->write_seq? EMBL->GenBank->EMBL is one of the tests that is talked about on bioperl-l. > Any objections? > Yes. Good thing we have this list, eh? > M > > > -- > -------------------------------- > "Speed is subsittute fo accurancy." > ________________________________ > > Dr. Mark Wilkinson > Bioinformatics Group > National Research Council of Canada > Plant Biotechnology Institute > 110 Gymnasium Place > Saskatoon, SK > Canada > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genquire-dev maillist - Genquire-dev@bioinformatics.org > http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/genquire-dev > > David Block (858)812-1513 Bioinformatics http://www.gnf.org dblock@gnf.org Just ridin' the Coaster...