Chris Fields

@heikkil I can confirm some of these using perl 5.26. It looks like they are due to a number of various issues that are worth breaking out into separate bugs,...

Interestingly enough, `prove -w t/LocalDB/Fasta.t` hangs completely for me. I'm not sure why, I can try running this on another system to see if the hang is just something local.

@heikkil The hang was due to a bad BerkeleyDB install (I upgraded to High Sierra just recently which seemed to cause problems). It's now passing. This also seems to address...

I agree w/ @bosborne , unless someone steps up on fixing this I'm more in favor of a simpler refactor. Basically the reworking of Bio::Species has added a lot of...

For now we can skip this test if LWP::Protocol::https isn't present but I think any NCBI-related test will require HTTPS at some point, so Bio::DB::GenBank and related should make this...

@tjparnell is there any reason you are installing directly from the Github repository and not from CPAN? You only need Dist::Zilla if you plan on installing from this repository directly,...

@carandraug missed your reply, sorry you are correct; I misread this as needing to install Dist::Zilla for using code from the master branch. Just deleted my last reply, no longer...

@tjparnell let us know if you want to help out, the more people involved the better. Particularly when we have two working on this whenever we can spare free time...

Correct. It is including quite a few modules which are in the perl core distribution. And it’s not a good idea to leave those out, the perl core is also...

Ah, that clarifies quite a bit, these are from the installation itself. It might be worth seeing how many additional downstream dependencies get pulled in from the current dependency list...