[Bioperl-l] cleanup of tempfiles

[David Block]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, David Block wrote:

> perl 5.6.1 is in beta for Mac OS (not OS X), I believe.  Some mac people

(Chris Nandor)

> got tired of being left out (finally) and ported 5.6.0, and they're
> attempting to keep up within months instead of years.

macperl.sourceforge.net, in alpha/beta/something-in-between...

> 
> Of course, on OS X, 5.6 works wonderfully :)
> 
> 
> -----------
> David Block (secret home Mac user)
> dblock@gene.pbi.nrc.ca
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> 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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