[Gmod-help] Chado Installation!

[Scott Cain]

Hi Ishen,

While there are places where a unix-like file system is assumed, it
might not be too hard.  When many of the current tools were written,
there wasn't an installer for PostgreSQL on Windows, so there wasn't
much question about supporting it.  Now you can get postgres on Windows,
so it might be doable.  Also, I've tried (though probably not with
complete success) to allow command line switches to override assumptions
about file locations (like /usr/local/gmod).

One Chado user, dictyBase.org, actually installed Chado on Oracle on
Windows, they just had to put in a lot of work to make it happen; though
I believe now they are in the process of migrating to Linux and
PostgreSQL.

As Dave mentioned, I am working on the 1.0 release right now.  If you
try to install on Windows and find that there are changes in the code
that you need to make, please let us know, so that they can be rolled
into the 1.1 release.

Finally, if you go down the path of use Windows without Cygwin, I would
suggest that you avoid PostgreSQL 3.0 or greater.  I'm concerned that
changes made to the database server may be incompatible with some of the
software written for Chado.

Scott

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:34 -0600, Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk wrote:
> 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)
> >
> > Recept: +27 31 203 4700
> >
> > Office: +27 31 203 4810
> >
> > Mobile: +27 83 681 4000
> >
> >
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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         cain at cshl.edu
GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory