[Bioperl-l] cleanup of tempfiles

[David Block]

perl 5.6.1 is in beta for Mac OS (not OS X), I believe.  Some mac people
got tired of being left out (finally) and ported 5.6.0, and they're
attempting to keep up within months instead of years.

Of course, on OS X, 5.6 works wonderfully :)


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David Block (secret home Mac user)
dblock@gene.pbi.nrc.ca
http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca/dblock/wiki
NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute
Saskatoon, SK, Canada

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> 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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