Hi, Spencer Skylar Chan <scha...@terpmail.umd.edu> writes:
> One approach could be to add CWL import/export capabilities to > GWL. Then Snakemake/GWL conversion would be a 2 step process, using > CWL as an intermediate step: > > 1. Snakemake -> CWL > 2. CWL -> GWL This seems doable. > However, CWL is not as expressive as Snakemake. There may be some > details that are lost from Snakemake workflows. > > So a 1-step Snakemake/GWL transpiler could be interesting, as both > Snakemake/GWL use a domain-specific language inside a general purpose > language (Python/Guile respectively). There may be a possibility to > achieve more "accurate" translations between workflows. Compared to the previous approach this seems vastly more complex. It’s one thing to *execute* Snakemake code without running it through Python, but quite a bit more challenging to transpile Python to Scheme. Personally, I wouldn’t know where to start. Do you have an idea already? -- Ricardo
