[Bioperl-l] TypedSeqFeatureI is in; tests which fail

[Ewan Birney]

Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 
> On Aug 25, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
>> Jason Stajich wrote:
>>
>>> They all pass for me on OSX, and linux.  What version of perl?
>>
>>
>> [Ewan-Birneys-Computer:wise2/src/network] birney% perl -v
>>
>> This is perl, v5.6.0 built for darwin
>>
>> Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
>>
> 
> I do suggest you upgrade perl. I know 5.6.0 is the one that comes with 
> Jaguar, but it has bugs in some features bioperl is taking advantage of 
> (nested regex in FTLocationFactory being just one example). I've had so 
> much trouble to get Bioperl pass all tests with errors nobody else was 
> getting that I finally gave up and upgraded (to Panther actually, but 
> upgrading perl supposedly suffices). Once I did that most failures went 
> away (and some new ones came up but that's another story and they are 
> fixed meanwhile).
> 
> I brought this up a while ago in spring and I can dig up the list thread 
> if you're interested. The conclusion was that essentially we'll have to 
> require perl 5.6.1 with the next release.
> 

Ok. I will still dig to find out how many we can fix in 5.6.0 --- I
am sure I wont be the last person to use it with Bioperl.



>     -hilmar