[Bioperl-l] Are all recommended modules equally important ?

[Dave Messina]

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your note.

All of the BioPerl 'recommended' modules involve optional functionality, so
I would think all of them would map to 'suggested' under Debian so they
won't be installed by default.

For everyone else, this is the list of recommended modules he's talking
about:
Ace
Class::AutoClass
Clone
Convert::Binary::C
Data::Stag::XMLWriter
GD
GD::SVG
Graph
HTML::Entities
HTML::Parser
HTTP::Request::Common
LWP::UserAgent
PostScript::TextBlock
Set::Scalar
SOAP::Lite
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Storable
SVG
SVG::Graph
Text::Shellwords
URI::Escape
XML::DOM::XPath
XML::Parser
XML::Parser::PerlSAX
XML::SAX
XML::SAX::Writer
XML::Twig
XML::Writer



Debian distributes versions 1.4 and 1.5.2 of Bioperl, but considers
> using 1.5.2 in its next stable release. We welcome your comments on this
> as well.
>

I think the consensus here would be that 1.5.2 is the appropriate version of
Bioperl to use in the next stable release of Debian. Although we've started
to work toward Bioperl 1.6, that release will be at least a few months off,
and 1.4, while technically our most recent 'stable' release, is waaay out of
date.



Dave