[Bioperl-l] ps-another attempt at installing Ace for BioPerl

[Christopher Fields]

Lincoln,

Go for it.  Not sure if you want to split that code out or just deprecate it's usage (latter is easy enough to do within BioPerl code, just a dep warning).

chris

On May 5, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> I think we should remove Ace from bioperl; there can't be that many people
> still using it, and I'm not devoting any cycles to maintaining the package.
> I'm happy to do the dirty deed unless there's a strong objection.
> 
> Lincoln
> 
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Fields <cjfields1 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> (cc'ing the main bioperl list)
>> 
>> Amy,
>> 
>> For future correspondence you should contact the bioperl mailing list.  You
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>> As for the modules in question (AcePerl and GraphViz), these aren't
>> absolutely required for most BioPerl functionality; tests that required them
>> are designed to skip if the modules aren't present.  Have you tried *not*
>> installing those and running tests?
>> 
>> chris
>> 
>> On May 4, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Powell Phd, Amy Jo wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> FY:  I made another attempt at installing an Ace package that BioPerl can
>> (hopefully) use, to no avail:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> LDS/AcePerl-1.92.tar.gz
>>> /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
>>> //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
>>> reports LDS/AcePerl-1.92.tar.gz
>>> Running make install
>>> make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
>>> Failed during this command:
>>> LDS/AcePerl-1.92.tar.gz                      : make_test NO
>>> 
>> 
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