[Bioperl-l] Need CPAN release to clear up CPANtesters test failure reports

[Fields, Christopher J]

Thanks Jim!  We can work on pushing out a new release.  

One of the long-term problems with BioPerl is the large size of the distribution; we’ve been considering a new 1.7x series to deal with this, but it’s clearly slowed down over the years.  Maybe this will help stimulate that effort again.

chris

> On May 15, 2016, at 6:41 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> The other day I was looking for unanswered Perl-tagged questions on stackoverflow.  I came across this one:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36985090/extracting-and-joining-exons-from-multiple-sequence-alignments
> 
> To answer it I tried to install BioPerl from CPAN but got multiple test failures.  I then checked out the BioPerl page on CPANtesters and saw that your latest CPAN distribution has experienced massive test failures on many versions of Perl and several different operating systems.  See:  http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=BioPerl+1.6.924
> 
> I subsequently located your github site at https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live, from which I was able to fork.  When I attempted to build locally, I was pleasantly surprised to find all tests run by ./Build test were PASSing.  The only problem I saw was a "missing or corrupt MANIFEST" message, for which I have supplied this pull request:  https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/pull/150.
> 
> Your last CPAN release was in July 2014.  I strongly advise that you do a CPAN release of BioPerl ASAP so that your project does not suffer reputational damage from all those test failure reports.  At the same time, I urge you to go through the bug reports at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=BioPerl.  It's likely that HEAD on github resolves some of these.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
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