[Bioperl-l] Bioperl platforms and XML parser

[Hilmar Lapp]

This sounds very encouraging with respect to the Windows front.

So at least, if I take your reports as representative of the Windows 
situation, then there's no shown show-stopper yet for requiring an XML 
parser. Hmm.

Again, this is a good opportunity for anybody out there to voice the 
trouble you had when trying to install an XML parser on your platform. 
It almost sounds too good to be true that there isn't one ... Would 
anybody be scared if Bioperl wouldn't run w/o an XML parser? Trying to 
solicit some feedback on how audacious you want, or don't want, the 
developers to go.

	-hilmar

On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:41 AM, Nathan Haigh wrote:

> This is what I've found so far:
> My System:
> ActiveState Perl 5.8.0 build 804 has:
> 	XML::Parser (v2.31)
> 	XML::Parser::Expat (v2.31)
> 	expat libs (v1.95.5) which are dynamically loaded.
> I'm not sure what versions of these file Perl 5.6 has, if it's 
> important to know, I could find out.
>
> The t\Biblio.t test ran without errors or problems. The only possible 
> future problem I can see, is if BioPerl needs to use a recent
> version of expat the would require windows user to update their 
> expat/XML::Parser, but aside from that things seem to work with
> absolutely no problems whatsoever - there's a first! :o)
>
> Is this what you wanted to hear? If there are any more windows related 
> questions, I'll do my best to help out!
> Nathan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hilmar Lapp [mailto:hlapp at gmx.net]
>> Sent: 01 December 2004 21:52
>> To: nathanhaigh at ukonline.co.uk
>> Cc: 'Brian Osborne'; 'Bioperl'
>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] AnnotationCollectionI and SeqFeatureI changes
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, at 06:52  AM, Nathan Haigh wrote:
>>
>>> ActiveState Perl has a module called XML::Parser::expat. Could this 
>>> be
>>> a perl implementation of the expat library?
>>>
>>
>> No. It's the wrapper that will dynamically load the expat library. If
>> you can 'use' this module like in
>>
>> 	$ perl -e 'use XML::Parser::Expat;'
>>
>> then probably you have expat installed and dynamically loadable.
>>
>> 	-hilmar
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