[Bioperl-l] BIOPERL_SAVVY?

[Jason Stajich]

I already use it in Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez as an example use case in a
DB module too.

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> > 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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Jason Stajich
Duke University
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