[Bioperl-l] BIOPERL_SAVVY?

[Lincoln Stein]

This is good.  But I would think that the message is only necessary when the 
system actually tries to fetch something using Bio::DB::{GenBank,EMBL}.  
Until then it should be silent as the grave.

Lincoln


On Saturday 10 May 2003 12:25 pm, Ewan Birney wrote:
> I have tweaked the bpfetch script so it does not fall over if LWP has not
> been installed. Currently is says this:
>
>
> bpfetch cannot find Bio::DB::GenBank and Bio::DB::EMBL modules
> This is most likely because LWP has not been installed
> This does not effect local indexing
> set environment variable BIOPERL_SAVVY to supress this message
>
>
> Is this a good idea? Should we standardise on environemnt variable to
> suppress "helpful" warning messages or not?
>
>
>
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