Anders Pitman

@reedacartwright, @zmertens, and I discussed wrapping offline and decided that the programs in question are common enough in the community to require separate installation, rather than trying to maintain python...

@rachelss would it be ok to target Python 3 with the port?

Excellent. Do you happen to know which version of Python 3 it's safe to require of the intended users?

3.6 would be fantastic. That includes every feature I might want to use. It really depends on what you want to support. It's a balancing act between using modern language...

@rachelss @BobLiterman just wanted to give an update on this. I've been steadily working on the port, and so far I've basically implemented `alignContigs`, `identifyFixedSites`, and `outputAlignment`. Should be on...

Oh I've also created a Dockerfile for development and running the tests. This solves the CI issues I was working with @BobLiterman on a while back (see #37). It also...

@rachelss @BobLiterman I've completed porting of `alignContigs`, `identifyFixedSites`, `outputAlignment`, and `changeMissing`. The code isn't super clean (and still shells out to unix tools a lot more than it needs to),...

Hey @BobLiterman, I've been reading up on distributed computing, since that does seem like an obvious big feature to add. For your proposed scheduler mode, would we need to implement...

That scheduler script conversion would be slick, but likely a lot of work. You're essentially transpiling between multiple languages. Getting something working would probably be pretty straight-forward, but you could...

A) ok maybe I'm misunderstanding the nature of the problem. I'd like to take a look at that generator for sure B) excellent