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that release will be at least a few months off, and 1.4, while technically our most recent 'stable' release, is waaay out of date.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
