Bioperl: "port" to NT

[Osborne, Brian]

To the group,

This is getting so easy I'm embarassed. If
one goes to and gets the most recent Perl
port from http://www.activestate.com and
installs it on NT, then downloads bioperl-0.04.zip,
unzips, and copies the Bio/ directory to the
newly create C:\Perl\lib, the scripts using
Bioperl just work. That's it.

By that I mean either through Cygnus' bash
or through NT's "Command Prompt".

However, the full 'perl Makefile.pl' followed by
'make' gives :

Makefile:738: *** missing separator. Stop.

I'll start to dissect this after the weekend with
my 15 month old son. He could have done this "port"
himself!

Brian O.

Brian Osborne
Cadus Pharmaceutical Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gunther Birznieks [SMTP:gunther@extropia.com]
> Sent:	Friday, December 11, 1998 5:15 PM
> To:	gheil@scn.org; vsns-bcd-perl@lists.uni-bielefeld.de
> Subject:	Re: Bioperl: "port" to NT
> 
> At 01:55 PM 12/11/98 -0800, greg heil wrote:
> >Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> >
> >> Why 5.003?  I thought that the latest ActiveState port is at
> > 5.005_02 and comes with the POSIX.pm.   If you used this, maybe
> > you wouldn't have to worry about changing the behavior of some
> > of the "pure" Perl modules so much?
> >
> >i can confirm the ActiveState/Posix, at least as of release 507.
> >
> >The 5.003 part, as i understand it, is to get a _least_ common
> >denominator... So folks in big IS depts would not have to bug
> >powers that be to upgrade their Perl;)
> >
> Hmm. That idea is commendable.
> 
> But isn't that a different goal than doing an NT-port?  Perhaps I am
> missing something but it seems to me that by that logic, 
> one might as well tell people not to bug their UNIX admin to upgrade
> Perl 5.003 for UNIX either. Instead, just start distributing instructions
> with
> Bioperl for running on older versions of Perl in general.
> 
> In addition, the mechanism for manually placing the Bio hierarchy in
> C:\PERL\LIB
> kind of requires pretty intrusive access to the NT Box anyway. 
> 
> It's not that much more intrusive to require upgrading
> to a more recent version of NT Perl especially when the install for
> ActiveState
> Perl is GUI-based these days.  
> 
> 
> 
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