[Bioperl-l] Size of BioPerl distribution

[Chris Fields]

After uploading the latest bioperl alpha to CPAN I noticed the size of  
the distribution archive has jumped up from ~7 MB to just over 10 MB.   
It looks like a majority of this is attributable to three data files  
for testing in t/data added after the 1.6.0 release:

gmap_f9-multiple_results.txt  (3 MB)
withrefm.906                  (2.5 MB)
1ZZ19XR301R-Alignment.tblastn (2 MB)

I'm not sure there is an easy way around the problem.  We could  
attempt to reduce the file size down, but I'm not convinced that's a  
long-term solution (the test data will only get larger as more test  
cases come up).

Any ideas?  Should we try to have a common biodata repo again?

chris