[Bioperl-l] Installing OS X dependencies

[Marc Colosimo]

>
> While we're on the subject of Mac OS X -  I'm a big fan of the ptkdb graphical
> debugger for Perl and use it extensively when working on Bioperl stuff on my
> Linux machine.  However, ptkdb requires X-Windows and Perl-tk which to my
> knowledge have either not yet been ported to Mac OS X or only been ported in a
> very limited manner.  So if any of you Mac OS X gurus out there have either
> gotten ptkdb,  X-Windows and/or Perl-tk to work on Mac OS X or are interested

There is a product already out for X-windows from Tenon called Xtools, which is
based on the X11R6.4 X Window release <http://www.tenon.com/products/xtools/>.
>From what I've seen it is really good. You can even run Rootless X windows and SSH
from it. It does cost money, but it is already made.

Marc