[Bioperl-l] regarding DB_File and Data::Stag

[Francisco J. Ossandón]

Thanks Chris, then I will change its status to "recommended".

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Chris Mungall [mailto:cjmungall at lbl.gov] 
Enviado el: miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014 10:44
Para: Francisco J. Ossandón
CC: BioPerl List
Asunto: Re: [Bioperl-l] regarding DB_File and Data::Stag

The Data::Stag was possibly my doing. I'm not sure why swissprot parsing would require this. I think you can get rid of this dependency

On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Francisco J. Ossandón wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I’m in the middle of polishing BioPerl to work better with ActivePerl, 
> and a few of the commits have focused on adding DB_File and Data::Stag  
> as “required_module” to the tests files that depend on them, so they 
> are skipped instead of crashing.
>
>
>
> So I would like to ask if it would be fine to move DB_File (used in
> databases-tests) and Data::Stag (used on swiss format-tests) from 
> Required to Recommended on Build.PL. My reasoning is that BioPerl have 
> many features, and users may never need those specific features (and 
> if they need it they will install them). In fact since I started using 
> BioPerl on 2007, I never used those dependencies until I started 
> looking for bugs beyond my work scope. Particularly, DB_File can be 
> tricky to install in Windows for ActivePerl (and I’ve just realized 
> that it behaves differently than in Strawberry Perl), and I don’t 
> think it should be listed as an obligatory installation if it’s beyond 
> the user scope.
>
>
>
> Right now all tests files are properly skipped or pass for a clean 
> ActivePerl installation (no extra modules installed besides MingGW and 
> Test::Most), so my next step is to check tests after I install all the 
> recommended extra modules.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Francisco J. Ossandon
>
>
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