[Bioperl-l] v5.005 in INSTALL

[Hilmar Lapp]

I ran an informal survey on this a couple days ago, you can check the 
archive for the results. The bottom line is that most people appear to 
use 5.6.1 or 5.8.x, but for instance FlyBase at Harvard still uses 5.005 
although apparently they are in the process of upgrading. MacOSX 10.2 
comes with 5.6.0 and Apple never updated it (in 10.2).

	-hilmar

On Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 08:04  AM, James Gilbert wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> A user emailed me to say that our Bio::Index modules don't work with 
> Perl 5.005, and that a lot of others don't either because they have 
> "use warnings". It says in the INSTALL file that 5.005 is OK. Should 
> we change the INSTALL file to a later version of Perl, or fix 5.005 
> compatability? (He had to use 5.005 on a particular machine because it 
> is required by his SRS installation.)
>
> Personally I'd go with 5.6.1 as a minimum. I like "use base", which 
> is, I think, a 5.6.1 feature.
>
> This is what we have in the INSTALL:
>
> o SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
>
>  - perl 5.005 or later*.
>
>  - External modules: Bioperl uses functionality provided in other
>    Perl modules.  Some of these are included in the standard perl
>    package but some need to be obtained from the CPAN site. The
>    list of external modules is included at the bottom of
>    this INSTALL document.
>
>    The CPAN Bioperl Bundle (Bundle::BioPerl) makes installation
>    of these external modules easy. Simply install the bundle
>    using your CPAN shell and all necessary modules will be installed.
>    See THE BIOPERL BUNDLE, below.
>
>  * Note that most modules will work with earlier versions of Perl.
>    The only ones that will not are Bio::SimpleAlign.pm and
>    the Bio::Index::* modules. If you don't need these modules
>    and you want to install bioperl using an earlier version of Perl,
>    edit the "require 5.005;" line in Makefile.PL as necessary.
>
>
> 	James
>
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