[Bioperl-l] Testing Needed: Strawberry Perl October 2009 to provide support for BioPerl

[Chris Fields]

Okay, will test and report back.

chris

On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote:

> Note: These are the corrected link.
>
> http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.10.1.0.msi
>
> http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.8.9.3.msi
>
> Adam K
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Chris Fields  
> <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> Adam,
>>
>> I can test this using Remote Desktop on a couple PC's here running  
>> XP (don't
>> have access to Vista).  The links didn't work for me, though.
>>
>> chris
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> Dear BioPeople
>>>
>>> Since we added a "Live Support Chat" link to the frontpage of the
>>> Strawberry Perl website ( http://strawberryperl.com/ ) we've noticed
>>> that one of the main types of visitors that we see in the IRC  
>>> channel
>>> ( #win32 on irc.perl.org ) is biologists trying to install various
>>> things.
>>>
>>> As a result, for the October 2009 release of Strawberry Perl, we've
>>> prioritised adding support for CPAN-installation of BioPerl.
>>>
>>> Changes include a major improvement to crypto support which provides
>>> OpenSSL and support for https:// URL, we now ship Postgres and MySQL
>>> DBI drivers in the default installation, and we have added Berkely  
>>> DB
>>> support as well.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to report that we now believe we are in a position to
>>> officially support the installation of BioPerl.
>>>
>>> Running "install BioPerl" from the CPAN client should now work
>>> correctly, for the default set of options, and BioPerl-dependant
>>> packages on the CPAN should recursively install correctly.
>>>
>>> Prior to the official release next week, we would appreciate testing
>>> from the BioPerl community.
>>>
>>> Release candidate installers for the October release are available  
>>> at
>>> the following URLs
>>>
>>> http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberryperl-5.10.1.0.msi
>>>
>>> http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberryperl-5.8.9.3.msi
>>>
>>> Once installed, run Start -> Program Files -> Strawberry Perl ->  
>>> CPAN
>>> Client
>>>
>>>> From the CPAN client command line, run "install BioPerl" and select
>>>
>>> the default options.
>>>
>>> Once installed, you should be able to do anything you do normally  
>>> with
>>> a BioPerl install.
>>>
>>> Assuming all goes well in this release, for the next release January
>>> 2010 we plan to also produce a "Strawberry Perl Professional"
>>> distribution that will bundle BioPerl as part of the default
>>> installation, as well as a Perl IDE and other useful packages.
>>>
>>> Success or failure of the release candidate can be reported either
>>> here or to #win32 on irc.perl.org.
>>>
>>> Adam K
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>>
>>
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