[Bioperl-l] problem with bioperl install

[Chris Fields]

On Jun 1, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

>
> On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
>
>> My thought is to strip down the INSTALL doc that comes with BioPerl  
>> down to the essentials and point to the wiki for the more detailed  
>> ones (including problems encountered).  It's too hard to maintain  
>> both and backport the wiki into plain text.
>
>
> Good idea, please then also update the file PLATFORMS. It has a link  
> to a very outdated website for the installation of bioperl on OS X.  
> And maybe a line + link to the bioperl wiki can be added that  
> recommends the use of fink as an alternative to cpan?
>
> cheers,
>
> - Koen.

Done. I've added a ticket on bugzilla for tracking this so it doesn't  
get lost:

http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2846

chris