[Bioperl-l] throwing in the towel

[Jason Stajich]

*grin*, yeah I think this module was more of a hack than anything
else.  But it saved me a lot of time a while ago.  Event driven is
probably not the best way to go here, so I suspect some major changes
of the parsing code will
go into it LATER if we still find it useful.  

For the record peter schattner was able to make his problems go
away with HTML::Parser version 3.18  so perhaps a required version would
be the way to go, otherwise a kick-out much like Variation_IO?


> The problem is - Jason would understand this if he was awake - we are not
> getting into $state ==2 in the parsing the GDB file. I suspect something
> is up either in the LWP that comes with 5.0004 and/or interaction between
> LWP and the perl internals. 
> 
> 
> I am going to give this another 10 mins of sweat. 
> 
> 
> I hate event driven parsers that have to be stateful. Yuk.
> 
> (in fact, I hate parsers completely)
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> > 
> > It's probably helpful if one of you submits a good report to the
> > bug tracker.
> > 
> > 	Hilmar
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Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center 
http://www.chg.duke.edu/