[Bioperl-l] PPM files for bioperl, bioperl-db

[Chris Fields]

I guess what I mean is: when generating the PPD file (using 'nmake ppd'
after archiving the blib directory), several dependencies are listed in the
PPD file which come from the makefile.  A number of those probably should be
kept, such as DB_File, but a few are 'red herrings,' in that HTML::Parser is
included in the ActivePerl Core.  I believe the dependencies listed are for
those who use CPAN directly; I don't think PPM can distinguish modules with
one name (HTML::Entities) packaged together with others (HTML::Parser).

What I'll do is remove those that are obviously not needed (IO::Scalar,
HTML::Entitites), go through the rest, then proceed from there.  

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Osborne [mailto:osborne1 at optonline.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:02 PM
To: Chris Fields; bioperl-l
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] PPM files for bioperl, bioperl-db

Chris,

In my opinion you should include anything that's listed in the INSTALL file
in your PPD file, I _think_ this is what previous PPD creators did. I may
not have addressed your question...

Brian O.


On 1/5/06 3:57 PM, "Chris Fields" <cjfields at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> My bad.  I checked through CPAN and the Activestate website for those last
> two.  HTML::Entities is included with HTML::Parser, which is part of the
> Activestate Perl core.  IO::Scalar is included with IO::Stringy, which is
> available.  If I set up the PPD file, should I remove all the dependencies
> since not all of them are needed, or leave the ones that matter (DB_File,
> etc) in?
> 
> Christopher Fields
> Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
> Dept. of Biochemistry
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Osborne [mailto:osborne1 at optonline.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:50 PM
> To: Chris Fields; bioperl-l
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] PPM files for bioperl, bioperl-db
> 
> Chris,
> 
> It looks like IO::Scalar is no longer used, it _was_ used by
> Bio::Tools::Blast. HTML::Entities is used by Bio::SearchIO::blastxml.
> 
> Brian O.
> 
> 
> On 1/5/06 3:27 PM, "Chris Fields" <cjfields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I have been toying around with creating PPM archives (Perl 5.8) for
>> Activestate Perl on WinXP and managed to get PPMs for bioperl-live and
>> bioperl-db installed through PPM3.  I haven't tested them out yet, but
I'm
>> trying to gauge the interest in maybe making them available for use with
>> somewhat regular updates (weekly or monthly).
>> 
>> Also, the dependencies listed for bioperl included the following:
>> 
>> DB-File
>> File-Spec
>> File-Temp 
>> IO-String
>> HTML-Entities
>> IO-Scalar
>> 
>> All but HTML=Entities and IO-Scalar are available for Win32.  Anyone know
>> what the missing modules are used for?
>> 
>> Christopher Fields
>> Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
>> Dept. of Biochemistry
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>> 
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