Chris Fields

I think this is an issue with use of indirect object declaration, e.g. http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/the-problems-with-indirect-object-notation.html The test file seems to have a few examples of this, but it could be elsewhere...

@carandraug the pull request (now merged) from @kiwiroy may address this.

@ddanilobm this appears to be run on Windows? It looks like the failure is when installing a dependency (XML::DOM::XPath), can you see whether this is compatible on Windows?

Possibly, the issue is we don't have tests in place to know. We would preferably have some basic minimal test for evaluating correctness within the test suite, except this module...

I *think* there is a `Bio::FeatureIO::table` but I'm not sure whether that was developed for this particular NCBI format.

Sorry, was mistaken. We do have a `Bio::SeqIO::table` but that doesn't mention anything about NCBI's table format. Saying that, it's possibly you could look at the structure for that one...

@fschwach Hi! This is a little-used module to be honest, if you think the tests are incorrect do you want to set up a pull request to address it?

@hlapp agreed. The simplest solution would be simple archival of the side-project lists and migrating bioperl-l (with the current subscribers) to the new hosted instance.

I’m assuming silence is implicit agreement to the proposed changes. We’ll leave this open for further comments but will proceed with the above plan

Tentative plans are to work on merging mail list subscribers to bioperl-l this coming week, with prior posts to older lists in a read-only archive.