[Bioperl-l] Windows, Perl, and BioPerl

[Chris Fields]

I believe Strawberry Perl aims to have a native Perl which allows  
direct links to CPAN (i.e. no intermediate PPM; it would be like  
running perl on other OS's).  ActivePerl already has a semblance of  
that (I tried it out with the last ActivePerl), but I don't think it's  
fully supported yet and I believe it installs to a separate directory.

Might be nice to work out what the roadblocks are; would they be in  
bioperl?

chris

On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Scott Cain wrote:

> That and the fact that it appears to be Strawberry Perl that will be
> on the machines.  Strawberry Perl is a completely free implementation
> of perl for Windows (as opposed to ActiveState perl, which is only
> free as in beer I believe).  However, every time I've tried to run
> GBrowse with Strawberry Perl I've run into road blocks, so maybe it
> has matured enough to try again.  At least it will be easy to do with
> these free VMs.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Chris Fields  
> <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> One of the most common problems with some perl modules is cross- 
>> platform
>> compilation of XS-based modules containing C/C++ code.  So maybe  
>> testing
>> bioperl-ext?  Or the proposed biolib initiative (www.biolib.open-bio.org 
>> ),
>> which aims to create swig-based bindings for the various Bio*  
>> languages?
>>
>> We have also run into problems in the past with bioperl-db and  
>> Windows.  We
>> have also had OS-dependent issues pop up now and then, so I think  
>> it's a
>> good thing (and I'm primarily using OS X/Linux now).
>>
>> chris
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Kevin Clancy wrote:
>>
>>> What projects would be suitable for folk in Windows world? I've  
>>> been using
>>> basic BioPerl on Windows since the late 90s. I haven't tried  
>>> GBrowse on
>>> Windows - is there reason to believe it won't work?
>>> Thanks
>>> kevin
>>>
>>>> From: cjfields at illinois.edu
>>>> To: bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org
>>>> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:01:01 -0600
>>>> Subject: [Bioperl-l] Windows, Perl, and BioPerl
>>>>
>>>> Just to keep those Windows users out there informed (from alias's
>>>> journal at use.perl.org):
>>>>
>>>> http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38036
>>>>
>>>> The key sentence:
>>>>
>>>> 'Commencing this month, Microsoft will be providing every CPAN  
>>>> author
>>>> with free access to a centrally-hosted virtual machine environment
>>>> containing every major version of Windows.'
>>>>
>>>> Windows XP Professional
>>>> Windows Server 2003 32-bit
>>>> Windows Server 2003 64-bit
>>>> Windows Vista Ultimate
>>>> Windows Server 2008 32-bit
>>>> Windows Server 2008 64-bit
>>>>
>>>> So, anyone wanting to take advantage of this (per BioPerl or  
>>>> Gbrowse)?
>>>>
>>>> chris
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