Questions about perl modules

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:19, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:

> I have installed the latest versions of the following ports:
> 
> p5-compress-raw-zlib @2.027 (perl)
> p5-compress-raw-bzip2 @2.031 (perl)
> 
> However, one of the dependencies of GBrowse2 asks for the very latest versions of these scripts
> 
> Given that I do not know how to create the latest ports for these programs, how should I proceed?
> 
> Can the maintainer of the ports upgrade them?
> Should I just uninstall them and install the latest versions manually not through ports while waiting for the ports to be upgraded?
> Can anyone show me how to create a port? If I learn, I might be able to start contributing more often upgrading ports

I updated them for you:

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/75499

In the future, you can just file a ticket in the issue tracker to request updates.


> Finally, are there any plans to port BioPerl?

This was requested, and I forgot about it:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26468

I'll take a look at it now.

\r