[Bioperl-l] Global version number for all bioperl modules

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Donald,

You should never mix bioperl versions. That is a recipe for disaster.
You should control what version of bioperl is used with environmental
variable PERL5LIB and have only one in your path. E.g. normally my
PERL5LIB contains all bioperl modules from cvs head, but when I want to
work with the 1.2 cvs branch (in an other terminal window) I set:

  export PERL5LIB=/home/heikki/src/bioperl-1.2

As for you question, after today's changes, the version number of any
bioperl module (in cvs HEAD for now only) should be the release number:

perl -we 'use Bio::Root::HTTPget; print \   
              $Bio::Root::HTTPget::VERSION, "\n";'

There is nothing we can do to older versions.

	-Heikki

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:45, Donald G. Jackson wrote:
> On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 04:09  AM, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:
> 
> >> They are commonly set at 0.1 and never
> >> changed again. Unless someone feels very strongly against that  I am
> >> going to remove them all.
> >  
> >
> 
> > Great. Go for it. -hilmar
> 
> No argument from me, but I do have a related question:
> 
> I often have 3-4 bioperls on my system at once - currently, 1.02, 1.21 and bioperl-live.
> This can make debugging fun - if I land in a particular module, it's hard to know which release it came from, so it's hard to tell if I've hit a version change or a bug.
> 
> Is there a way to get information on which _release_ a module belongs to?  If not, could this be implemented - perhaps in Bio::Root::Root since (afaik) all Bio:: modules inherit from this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Don Jackson
> BMS
> 
> 
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