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

Christopher Fields cjfields1 at gmail.com
Thu May 5 14:21:26 UTC 2011


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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