[Bioperl-l] problem with installation of Bioperl1.4 on Windows XPPC using ActivePerl PPM

[Chris Fields]

Nathan,

I'll try upgrading to the latest ActivePerl to see what's going on.  We
probably need to be prepared for this issue if it pops up, as I'm sure it
will.

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

...
> I've been looking at this a little bit today. It is weird! Firstly, I
> thought new ppm4 can't actually find a File::Spec module other than
> version 0.82 and thought it might be due to the addition of new tags to
> ppd files (<REQUIRE> and <PROVIDE>) in order to better track
> dependencies etc. However, I don't have File::Spec installed, or
> PathTools so I have no idea where it gets the version numbers from!
> 
> I would install a slightly earlier version of Perl which still uses
> PPM3. All versions >= 5.8.8.818 will only contain PPM4, so either
> download 5.6.1 or download an old release of 5.8.8 from here:
> http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/
> 
> Sorry I couldn't be too much help.
> Nathan