[Gmod-help] Re: GMOD

[Scott Cain]

Hi Christos,

Sorry I've been so slow to answer--I've been at a conference for the
past week and it has been quite draining.

The short answer about MySQL is that we don't support it.  The Chado
schema is designed to run in PostgreSQL, though a few users use Oracle,
Sybase and DB2.  There is one person who uses a subset of the Chado
schema with MySQL, but none of the code I've written works with it.  I
don't suggest MySQL for any data that is really important; take a look
at 

  http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

A step by step guide is a good idea, and we are working on just that
sort of thing.  In the mean time, please see 

  http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php/Chado_-_Getting_Started#Chado_From_CVS

which will then point to the install document at

  http://gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/gmod/schema/chado/INSTALL.Chado

Scott




On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 21:20 -0500, Todd Vision wrote:
> Hi Christos,
> 
> I am forwarding your query to the GMOD helpdesk, who should be able to help
> you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Todd
> 
> 
> On 11/6/07 12:09 PM, "christos noutsos" <cnoutsos at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Todd,
> > recently we bought a server running fedora 5.1 here so that I can
> > install GMOD and use it. I was trying to contact Scott Cain since last
> > week but I guess he is not available. So I have several questions and I
> > was wondering if yo could help me. So I am more familiar with mysql as a
> > database software so I want to use mysql instant of postgres. But then
> > do I still need Chado? Secondly, are there any dependences among the
> > several available software available? I mean do I need to download
> > install/configure them in a certain order or I can do that randomly. I
> > think what is missing from the GMOD website is a step by step guide for
> > the new users of GMOD and for people with not so much programming
> > experience..
> > Thanks a lot for your time.
> > Christos
> 
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