[ensembl-dev] Bio::Das::Lite::UserAgent requires outdated LWP

[Youens-Clark, Ken]

"Bio::Das::Lite::UserAgent" subclasses "LWP::Parallel::UserAgent," a CPAN module that hasn't been updated in eight years (since 2004):

	http://search.cpan.org/~marclang/ParallelUserAgent-2.57/

When you go to build it, you get a warning that it only work with a version of "libwww" 5.76 or earlier:

> $ perl Makefile.PL 
> 
>           **** WARNING: Unsupported Version of libwww found! ****
> 
> This library only supports libwww up to version 5.76. You seem to have
> version 6.03 installed, which has not yet been tested by the package author
> for compatibility. Some or all tests might fail!
> 
> Install at your own risk, or wait until a more recent version of this library
> is available.

But this version is so old that it's not even available on CPAN:

	http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/

Users have to know to go to Backpan:

	http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.76.tar.gz

But wouldn't it be better to simply update this module to work with the most recent version of LWP?

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Ken Youens-Clark
kclark at cshl.edu
Ware Lab/CSHL/USDA-ARS