[Bioperl-l] Use of Root.pm versus RootI.pm

Sendu Bala bix at sendu.me.uk
Tue Oct 17 08:59:36 UTC 2006


Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> So it looks like an abstract base class, not an interface that  
> defines a contract or API? Should use Root.pm then, would be my vote.

Agreed, that was actually what I did in my local copy when I made a new 
inheriting class (so discovering the problem). This change is harmless 
to other modules, but does mean they'll have redundant use of 
Bio::Root::Root which will want cleaning up at some stage.



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