[Bioperl-l] IO::String

[Jason Stajich]

Ewan - we talked before about providing an IO::String in the distro as it
is necessary for one to run the basic remote DB lookups (what lots of
people want to do out of the box).  Are there any major negatives to just
including it in the distro - I believe it is pure perl.  Either wrapped
inside a new Root class which will use the installed version over its own
copy+paste implementation as we have done with File::Spec.  Alternatively
we can just provide a extras directory and place the latest IO-String in
there.

-jason

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu