[Gmod-schema] [Gmod-help] Chado Installation!

[David Emmert]

Hi Ishen,

>> > We are running Windows platforms at our workplace. Is it possible for 
>> > you to help/guide us in any way to install Chado in a Windows platform.
>> >

I don't see why you'd have any problem building chado in your postgres server,
but as Dave C mentioned, many parts of GMOD assume a Linux/Unix environment.  
Have you thought of running something like Cygwin?  

Pinglei Zhou (a colleague at FlyBase) wrote a chapter in Current Protocols 
which describes installing chado on a PC in cygwin:

      Pinglei Zhou, David Emmert, and Peili Zhang
      Current Protocols in Bioinformatcs (2005) 9.6.1-9.6.28
      DOI: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0906s12

Hope this helps,

-Dave E.

>From gmod-schema-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net Fri Mar 28 10:34:37 2008
>> To: "Ishen Seocharan" <Ishen.Seocharan at mrc.ac.za>
>> Cc: GMOD Schema List <gmod-schema at lists.sourceforge.net>,
>>         GMOD Help Desk <help at gmod.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Gmod-schema] [Gmod-help] Chado Installation!
>> 
>> Dear Ishen,
>> 
>> I am posting my response to your inquiry to the GMOD Schema list.
>> People on that list may have more to add.  If you have specific
>> questions about using Chado on Windows then that is a good place to
>> post them.  I recommend you subscribe to that list.
>> 
>> The short answer to your question is that we discourage people from
>> using Chado on Windows platforms.  Many parts of GMOD have a
>> Linux/Unix assumption and require work to adapt it to Windows.
>> 
>> However, I believe there are sites that run Chado on Windows, and your
>> use of Postgres will greatly reduce the number of problems you
>> encounter.
>> 
>> Another thing worth noting is that the 1.0 release of Chado is
>> imminent.  I would wait until it is released before starting your
>> Chado installation (or I would restart it when 1.0 comes out).
>> 
>> My recommendations:
>> 1. Subscribe to gmod-schema:
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmod-schema
>> 2. Get the 1.0 release when it come out, and start installation
>> 3. When you hit problems, search the gmod-schema list to see if anyone
>> else has hit the same problem.  If not post your questions.
>> 
>> In the long term, the help desk has plans to provide more useful
>> information about GMOD on Windows, but this probably won't happen in
>> the next few months.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dave C
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Ishen Seocharan
>> <Ishen.Seocharan at mrc.ac.za> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear Sir,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am currently working on the MDSS project which is part of the IVCC funded
>> > project at the Medical Research Council in South Africa.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We are in the process of designing a component of the MDSS and we want to
>> > use the Chado database in the development. From all the research which we
>> > have conducted on the internet, we have only come up with solutions which
>> > operate in UNIX platform. We don't use UNIX here.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We are running Windows platforms at our workplace. Is it possible for you to
>> > help/guide us in any way to install Chado in a Windows platform.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We are currently running the following:
>> >
>> > Windows XP/Windows Server 2003
>> > Postgres 8.2
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any help will be appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Ishen Seocharan
>> >
>> > IT Advisor
>> >
>> > Medical Research Council (SA)
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> 
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