[Bioperl-l] regarding DB_File and Data::Stag

[Chris Mungall]

The Data::Stag was possibly my doing. I'm not sure why swissprot parsing 
would require this. I think you can get rid of this dependency

On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Francisco J. Ossandón wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I’m in the middle of polishing BioPerl to work better with 
> ActivePerl, and a
> few of the commits have focused on adding DB_File and Data::Stag  as
> “required_module” to the tests files that depend on them, so they 
> are
> skipped instead of crashing.
>
>
>
> So I would like to ask if it would be fine to move DB_File (used in
> databases-tests) and Data::Stag (used on swiss format-tests) from 
> Required
> to Recommended on Build.PL. My reasoning is that BioPerl have many 
> features,
> and users may never need those specific features (and if they need it 
> they
> will install them). In fact since I started using BioPerl on 2007, I 
> never
> used those dependencies until I started looking for bugs beyond my 
> work
> scope. Particularly, DB_File can be tricky to install in Windows for
> ActivePerl (and I’ve just realized that it behaves differently than 
> in
> Strawberry Perl), and I don’t think it should be listed as an 
> obligatory
> installation if it’s beyond the user scope.
>
>
>
> Right now all tests files are properly skipped or pass for a clean
> ActivePerl installation (no extra modules installed besides MingGW and
> Test::Most), so my next step is to check tests after I install all the
> recommended extra modules.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Francisco J. Ossandon
>
>
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