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, soI 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 timesI 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)