[Bioperl-l] Re: BPLite

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Elia Stupka wrote:

> > Since we're using bioperl-06 and Lorenz's BPLite module isn't in that, 
> > I had to copy it (or at least an old version that Matloob had been
> > using) 
> > into somewhere that is seen by $PERL5LIB - for me that's 
> > ~/perllib/BPLite.pm
> > 
> > Then all was OK ...
> 
> Yes, but that makes the tests fail for anybody else who does not know of
> this trick, and kills portability, am I right?
> 
> I can:
> 1)cvs add BPlite, and all its modules to the branch-06 bioperl (I have
> cc:ed this to bioperl to see if there is any reason not to)

No. Don't do that. 

Consider BPLite to be an external dependancy (like the blast executable)
for the Ensembl runnable system...

> 
> 2)modify the Pipeline Blast.pm module accordingly.
> 
> Then all you would need to do is cvs update the bioperl branch and ensembl
> pipeline at the same time, how does that sound?
> 



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