[Bioperl-l] RootI detachment proposal.

[Jason Stajich]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> 
> 
> [Ewan recovers from rereading the Bio::Root:: stuff...]
> 
> This is *mainly* for Jason and Hilmar, but in case there are other
> people who want to chip in:
> 
> 
> I want to completely detach RootI from the other Root::Objects (in
> particular Err). This means a heavy refactoring of RootI - mainly in 
> removing the code.
> 
> I will keep ->throw and ->warn but not ->verbose as a real method. (jason
> - do you mind this?) (I will have a "deprecation warning" on verbose)

well, actually verbose makes me happy because we can choose whether or not
warn will actually print out msgs.  Can it just be a get/set method and
warn can check to see if verbose > 0 before printing?  I like to use it as
a debugging flag as well so we can have object specific debugging flags.

> 
> 
> I am planning to do this on my local copy now and see how it pans out...
> 
> 
> Bio::Root::Object in it's full glory will still be there for modules we
> have not migrated to Bio::Root::RootI
> 
> 
> thoughts anyone?
> 
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Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center 
http://www.chg.duke.edu/