ConversionSupport.pm

=head1 LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 The European Bioinformatics Institute and
  Genome Research Limited.  All rights reserved.

  This software is distributed under a modified Apache license.
  For license details, please see

    http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/code_licence.html

=head1 CONTACT

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=head1 NAME

Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::ConversionSupport - Utility module for Vega release and
schema conversion scripts

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  my $serverroot = '/path/to/ensembl';
  my $support = new Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::ConversionSupport($serverroot);

  # parse common options
  $support->parse_common_options;

  # parse extra options for your script
  $support->parse_extra_options( 'string_opt=s', 'numeric_opt=n' );

  # ask user if he wants to run script with these parameters
  $support->confirm_params;

  # see individual method documentation for more stuff

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module is a collection of common methods and provides helper
functions for the Vega release and schema conversion scripts. Amongst
others, it reads options from a config file, parses commandline options
and does logging.

=head1 METHODS

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package Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::ConversionSupport;

use strict;
use warnings;
no warnings 'uninitialized';

use Getopt::Long;
use Text::Wrap;
use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Exception qw(throw warning);
use FindBin qw($Bin $Script);
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use Cwd qw(abs_path);
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

=head2 new

  Arg[1]      : String $serverroot - root directory of your ensembl sandbox