On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am curious (only curious - this is not a complaint): Does anyone know why > there ended up being a pretty well-fleshed-out 'biology' section in pkgsrc > but there isn't "chemistry", "physics", "engineering" etc... > > Was there some prodigious pkgsrc maintainer/hacker who was a biologist or is > it just that there happen to be more biology-related programs which justify > the discrete category? > > Again, not complaining. I think it's quirky and cool. I'm just curious. > > Thanks, > Swift
I wasn't around then but the cvs history pretty much confirms my suspicions: René Hexel (rh@) started the category in 1999 with the message: "Enable bioperl." If you recall, the late 90's and early 2000's saw a big push in bioinformatics, and especially with perl as a processing language. Matt p.s. I have cc'ed René to see if more details can be shared.
