[Bioperl-l] [Fwd: Re: [perl #75252] POD rendering question/problem (was [Fwd: What is CPAN doing?])]

[Chris Fields]

On May 24, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Dave Messina wrote:

> From: Graham Barr via RT <search-rt at cpan.org>
>> IMO it is confusing to include 2 different copies of the same module.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> It would be better to use the main copies of PrimarySeq, PrimarySeqI, Seq, and SeqI instead of private copies (and not just because of this POD conflict).
> 
> In fact, my quick examination suggests that the examples/root scripts don't even use the duplicate modules in that private lib (just TestInterface and TestObject).
> 
> I haven't extensively played with them, though, so there may be some compelling reason for using private copies that I'm overlooking. In that case we could just do as Graham suggested and block CPAN from indexing the private copies.
> 
> So I propose we test if the example scripts perform as expected without those private copies and if so, remove them.
> 
> Dave

I agree.  We should either prevent indexing or remove it, unless someone can suggest it's utility.

chris