[Bioperl-l] Re: RPMs for Bioperl and GMOD

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Allen Day wrote:

> I'd appreciate it if someone with Oracle and DBD::Oracle installed 
> could
> give Bioperl-DB a spin and verify that it works.
>

Do you mean your RPM or bioperl-db on Oracle? I'm running the latter 
all the time.

> I'd also like someone with Oracle to help me make a DBD::Oracle rpm.
> Having a DBD::Oracle RPM will allow me to leave the Oracle code in
> Bioperl-DB.

If installing the supposed DBD::Oracle is then a prerequisite for being 
able to install the rest, then you are taking the wrong path. 
DBD::Oracle itself will depend on the Oracle client libraries being 
installed which aren't even available on all platforms, aside from the 
fact that installing those is beyond your control and involves 
downloading about 350MB from OTN.

Frankly, I can't believe that there is no way to specify dependencies 
that are optional. Why would you require all of DBD::mysql, DBD::Pg, 
and DBD::Oracle if all a persons wants is mysql?? All of these will 
link to compiled runtime libraries and why should a failure to install 
DBD::Pg be of any concern to someone who wants to use mysql?

BTW DBD::Oracle is on CPAN. I thought that would make it easy to 
construct an RPM? (There's few if any binaries though - for a reason. 
Compiling DBD::Oracle may be a charm on some but involve some major 
tweaking on other platforms. I've been there multiple times, I know 
what I'm talking about.)

	-hilmar

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