[Bioperl-l] Size of BioPerl distribution

[Chris Fields]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:43 PM, George Hartzell wrote:

> Robert Buels writes:
>> Chris Fields wrote:
>>> Kind of my thought as well, just a bit of a shock to see the dist.
>>> increase by 65% between point releases for just three test data  
>>> files.
>>> I may try paring those down a tad.
>>
>> Yes, those individual files are certainly excessive.
>
> Woo hoo.  Fame and fortune.  Or at least fame.  Or something just this
> side of embarrassment.  Rats.
>
> I'll see about making a smaller test for the gmap_f9 parser, while
> still using real data.
>
> Is there existing support in the searchio infrastructure for reading
> [gb]zip'ed files?
>
> Can it wait a day or three?
>
> g.

Yes, certainly.  I'll be working on a separate issue this weekend  
dealing with the META.yml that CPAN/CPANPLUS appear to be choking on,  
so I'll push back the release until early next week.

chris