[Bioperl-l] Optional dependency handling, devs please read

David Messina dmessina at wustl.edu
Tue Nov 21 19:36:10 UTC 2006


On Nov 21, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:
> Yes, thanks, that's a good idea. I currently (in my private copy)  
> have the default as 'no', but if changed as above, should the  
> default be to 'skip all'?

Yeah, that makes sense to me.


> Or, perhaps have an initial question 'do you want to be asked to  
> install optional modules you don't have' would be better?

I think that would work fine, too -- whichever is easiest for you...

Dave



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