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

[Sendu Bala]

Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Dave Messina wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I would probably elevate LWP to 'recommended.' Other than that I agree.

I looked at the most used external modules. Used 6 times or more:

   Data::Dumper => used 55 times
   Carp => used 51 times
   IO::String => used 25 times
   Symbol => used 19 times
   File::Spec => used 17 times
   HTTP::Request::Common => used 17 times
   POSIX => used 12 times
   DB_File => used 11 times
   Fcntl => used 11 times
   IO::File => used 11 times
   Exporter => used 10 times
   File::Temp => used 9 times
   Dumpvalue => used 8 times
   LWP::UserAgent => used 8 times
   Scalar::Util => used 8 times
   URI::Escape => used 8 times
   File::Basename => used 6 times
   File::Path => used 6 times
   XML::Writer => used 6 times

I can never remember how to figure out which of those is included with 
perl 5.6.1.

Except maybe XML::Writer, if we do want to promote anything to 
recommended, I suppose it would be those above.

I also agree with everything Dave said; if it's easier everything can be 
'suggested'.


(I reckon most if not all of the Data::Dumper and Carp usages should be 
removed)