[Bioperl-l] cleanup of tempfiles

[Hilmar Lapp]

Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:
> 
> >
> > Solutions:
> > o use File::Path's rmtree method to cleanup a dir.  A new dependency.
> > o require File::Temp to be installed and get rid of our implementation
> > o [sigh] import the rmtree method from File::Path
> >
> > Any opinions?  I really just want to go with the 2nd choice, but I know it
> > is silly to force people to have File::Temp installed to run bioperl.
> > On the other hand, we've already essentially imported File::Temp into
> > Root::IO, might as well import rmtree too...
> 
> I think <<sigh>> is the way to go here. ....
> 

As for Heikki's post, I'd second that we keep 1.0 compatible with
at least 5.005. We might also need to support 5.004 because at
least a while ago this was the latest version on Macs (not sure
though whether this is still true). Ewan a while ago suggested
that 5.004 support is important.

So, the <sigh>-solution seems to be the 'best', even though not
the cleanest.

	Hilmar
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