[Bioperl-l] IO::String

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jason Stajich wrote:

> Ewan - we talked before about providing an IO::String in the distro as it
> is necessary for one to run the basic remote DB lookups (what lots of
> people want to do out of the box).  Are there any major negatives to just
> including it in the distro - I believe it is pure perl.  Either wrapped
> inside a new Root class which will use the installed version over its own
> copy+paste implementation as we have done with File::Spec.  Alternatively
> we can just provide a extras directory and place the latest IO-String in
> there.


I don't see any major negatives. Probably I think it would be better to
put it in Bio::Root::String::IO or soemthing so there is no namespace
clash, but if people think differently, I'm happy to hear other routes.


Bioperl working-out-of-the-box for common functionality on common perl
versions is a very good target.


> 
> -jason
> 
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> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu
> 
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