[Bioperl-l] Build.PL? Can't I just use bioperl-live from github? (rosalind.info looks cool)

[Jay Hannah]

Hi BioPerl! 

I've been gone a long time. I'm sitting here at YAPC, someone mentioned http://rosalind.info/ Cool! Hey, I'll do some of these with BioPerl, just for fun! Woot! 

I'm surprised, sad, that I'm having a hard time using BioPerl on my laptop. I just wanted to use Bio::Seq:

BioPerl-Rosalind git:(master) $ perl dna.pl
Can't locate Bio/Seq.pm in @INC ...

Oh, right. No problem, I'll just add BioPerl to my PERL5LIB:

BioPerl-Rosalind git:(master) $ export PERL5LIB=~/src/bioperl-live
BioPerl-Rosalind git:(master) $ perl dna.pl
Base class package "Bio::Root::Root" is empty. ...

Uhh... what? Do I have to install BioPerl? That's a bummer, well, OK, I guess if I HAVE TO install, I will:

bioperl-live git:(master) $ perl Build.PL
Can't locate Bio/Root/Build.pm in @INC ...
bioperl-live git:(master) $ find ./ -name "Build.pm"
bioperl-live git:(master) $ 

Wait... what? Years ago I used BioPerl from github for years... Have I completely forgotten how everything works?

If I "fix" it would I be breaking it? 

Chris: Are you in the middle of some transition?

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bioperl-live git:(master) $ git log Build.PL
commit a747f2054b2a85526eda382baf498a945a9817d2
Author: Chris Fields <cjfields at bioperl.org>
Date:   Tue May 27 10:33:21 2014 -0500

    Revert "Move Build.pm out of Root into an install-specific directory; this will"

    This reverts commit 268b046514e9e4cd7b67f346c524ff04b8a3aa5e.

commit 268b046514e9e4cd7b67f346c524ff04b8a3aa5e
Author: Chris Fields <cjfields at bioperl.org>
Date:   Tue May 27 00:54:25 2014 -0500

    Move Build.pm out of Root into an install-specific directory; this will
    eventually lead up to factoring as much out of it as possible (and maybe
    deprecating it altogether)
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...

To my shock and horror (j/k lolz), I've been coding Perl for almost 20 years, yet BioPython Just Works:

biopython git:(master) $ python setup.py build
biopython git:(master) $ python setup.py test

Why is Python easier to use than Perl, when I'm a Perl guy and don't know squat about Python?

...  Can I help fix things?

Thanks,

j
http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Jay_Hannah