Hi Stef,

2018-01-21 5:17 GMT-03:00 Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com>:
> Hi hernan
>
> I started to clean the code in my fork.
> If you want to contribute let me know.

I don't know enough about workflow implementations yet. However I know
how to run or what to expect from them.
So I could give some feedback from there at first.

> I started to clean all misclassified methods to force me to  read the
> code. (I used them as a marker to know if I passed on the code).

That could result in a nice browser feature: To flag methods from menu
item adding specific icon, maybe possible in Calypso? :)

> For the moment I made sure that the code loads.
> - I created the variable as subclass of Object
> - I removed the dependencies to omnibase.
>
> I added class comments about what I understood.
> I'm about to continue writing structural tests
> and I will start to try to understand how to run a workflow.
>

Maybe someone at Netstyle has some expressions to begin with?

Hernán


> Stef
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Hernán Morales Durand
> <hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I decided to give a try to Aare or Workflow in Pharo 6, following
>> instructions in https://github.com/Netstyle/Workflow . However, the
>> installation script raised a Warning about missing WADynamicVariable
>> class. Should I install Seaside?
>>
>> I've been using a couple of bioinformatics workflows the last years,
>> specially Taverna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Taverna) and
>> Galaxy (https://www.galaxyproject.org/) both of them huge code bases
>> maintained since some years now and with very active communities from
>> biological sciences. I found a cool video showing Galaxy features:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYzMWWRMN8
>>
>> As impressive as you may think, they are not a Panacea for workflow
>> execution. An installation process could get really complicated, for
>> example interfacing with nginx and PostgreSQL, and customization of
>> toolshed could end in endless editing XML specifications.
>>
>> I just skim through the white paper, but unfortunately didn't
>> recognized any of the compared features or workflow systems.
>> Is Aare intended to support only business workflows patterns?
>> Considering the Galaxy video above, do you think scientific workflows
>> could be supported in Aare or it is a completely different route?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hernán
>>
>

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