[Bioperl-l] BIOPERL_SAVVY?

[Lincoln Stein]

> Actually, we might be able to get rid of those LWP-related error
> messages completely. There is a recent module Bio::Root::HTTPget which
> could be used as a fallback. (I did not know about it before this
> weekend).

Oh yeah.  I forgot about that.  I wrote it for Chris D. on the last day of the 
S.Africa hackathon intending to use it as a non-LWP fallback.  Maybe I should 
go back and complete the docs.

Lincoln

>
> We really need a good clean up of Bio::DB modules and logic. Volunteers
> please!
>
>
>         -Heikki
>
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 17:25, 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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