[Bioperl-l] 0.7 release: Bio::Root::* classes

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Ewans proposal was to get rid of Bio::Root::Object.
> 
> Personally, I can't comment much on this subject. After looking at what
> Bio::Root::Object actually implements, it seems that everything I used so
> far (initialization, _rearrange(), throw(), warn()) in fact were things
> provided by Bio::Root::RootI.

This is why I made RootI (notice it doesn't give you the _initialize
routine, and there is still a dependency I belive on Root:;Objecct from
the warn method we need to remove).

I originally made RootI because there are a large number of cases where
you want to use the nice ->throw or ->warn syntax but don't want to have a
Root::Object (ie, a perl hash with particular properties) around. Classic
examples are C extension objects.

Having used RootI for a while, I can't imagine using anything from the 
Root::Object call. The only thing I have heard of being useful is hte
->clone call. However, ->clone is a hard thing to implement once you are
outside the world of "well behaved" perl objects (eg, C objects, CORBA
stuff) and I don't think it is healthy to mandate that every bioperl
object should be "cloneable".


 > 
> So, what are the arguments for abandoning Bio::Root::Object? Does anyone
> object to deprecate using it?


I don't ;)

Steve or Peter vh might do though....


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> 	Hilmar
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