Re: [DIYbio] Genome Compiler

Hi Omri,
I tried using your webapp version (I even installed Abode Flash, but
it's getting uninstalled again now that I'm finished), and it seems to
require Adobe Air even on Linux.

I'm afraid that means I'm unable to use it without installing an
outdated version of an Adobe product (they ceased supporting Air for
Linux months ago), which is personal-computing-suicide.

Thanks anyway,
Cathal

On 05/06/12 17:42, Omri Drory wrote:
> Hi Cathal, before we started coding our new version of Genome Compiler
> (prototype was .net/c# on win only) we looked at many tech options and had
> a big discussion about this. We're really tech agnostics - we only care
> about budding the best bioCAD tool possible and having satisfied users.
>
> Most likely we will need to move to another tech platform - but for now,
> most of our users (as based on info we get from people logging to our site)
> use macs/pc. We have limited personal and budget and can only do so much.
>
> Hope you will use our web version (yes - even though it will be flash) on
> linux soon.
>
> Best,
>
> Omri
>
> On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 3:41:18 AM UTC-7, Cathal wrote:
>>
>> ...But it's not cross platform. It's Mac/Windows only.
>> There are oodles of other systems that are fully cross platform and more
>> powerful/secure than Adobe anything. Consider Python3/TclTK a nice
>> standard of this class.
>>
>> Even properly written code in C is "cross-platform" because you can just
>> compile it to each architecture. Less convenient than Python, but still
>> miles better than Air.
>>
>> Air is pretty. It might be easy to work with, I don't know. But it's not
>> cross-platform at all. And, as an Adobe product, it should be considered
>> a malware backdoor.
>>
>> On 04/06/12 22:15, Omri Drory wrote:
>>> Hi Bryan, this Omri (CEO of Genome Compiler) - we use AIR only because
>> of
>>> the cross-platform support. We're not in love with this platform and
>> hope
>>> to move to HTML5 when it's mature enough.
>>>
>>> Please do try our software - there much we plan to build and support our
>>> community (just gave a talk at bioC + supporting iGem)
>>>
>>> Feel free to contact me at omri@genomecompiler.com if you have any
>> feedback
>>>
>>> Omri
>>>
>>> On Friday, June 1, 2012 7:35:00 PM UTC-7, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:34 PM, ruphos <apokruphos@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hard to say. They don't give any info about their program (that I
>> could
>>>>> find, anyway) until you click the install button. Unfortunately,
>> they're
>>>>> using adobe air as a platform, which no longer supports linux-based
>>>> OSes.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds sorta useless. The only reason you might choose Adobe Air is
>>>> because you were sold over the hype about protecting your machine
>>>> code, but that's not really true because, hell, we're biohackers. The
>>>> other possible reason is some claim about cross-platform support, but
>>>> there are tons of more biologist-friendly options for that (pyjs keeps
>>>> claiming to be one, but there are others). Smells fishy to me.
>>>>
>>>> - Bryan
>>>> http://heybryan.org/
>>>> 1 512 203 0507
>>>>
>>>
>>
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