[Bioperl-l] Bio::Root::IO reads URLs from -file

[Peter van Heusden]

Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> I lean with Ewan to -url as I like explicit commands better than 
> possibly dubious magic behind the scenes ... imagine someone stores 
> files by names that match their url ...
>
> There's one thing though that's important IMO that Jason brings up: I 
> don't know how you implemented this but I think Bio::Root::IO must not 
> be dependent on LWP or any such beast that doesn't come with perl.
>
I'm with the majority in that 'magic' creates possible confusion and 
more room for error. As to Hilmar's idea of not depending on LWP, I 
think this is also a good idea, and maybe the URL code can be a kind of 
'mixin' - i.e. implement it in another module and then have 
Bio::Root::IO optionally add it as a plugin. What do you intend to do 
with this capability? Is there going to be another module that depends 
on the -url ability?

Peter