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added directions for anonymous cvs checkout on windows.
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Scott Cain committed Jan 8, 2003
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Expand Up @@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ Installation currently has only been tested on Windows 2000. If you install
on another platform successfully, please let me know so I can add it to the
list.

The CVS version of GBrowse can be checked out in Windows using a Windows CVS
client. Here are directions for checking out anonymously using WinCVS
(http://www.wincvs.org/) (for directions for doing it as a developer,
see the documentation on SourceForge). Note that when you checkout
anonymously, there is no way to commit. After obtaining and installing WinCVS,
under the 'Admin' menu, select 'Preferences' and set cvsroot exactly as it
appears on the line below:

:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gmod.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod

Then, under 'Create' menu, select 'Checkout module', and enter
'Generic-Genome-Browser' and select a local folder for it to be
checked out to.

Obtain the prerequisite software listed in the INSTALL document. I advise
using precomiled binaries where available, including Apache, Activestate Perl,
and MySQL. For installing Perl modules, I recommend using Activestate's
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The installation goes mostly as described in the INSTALL document. In order
for the Makefile to work correctly, when making the Makefile with Makefile.PL,
supply directories with forward slashes (/) as delimiters instead of
backslashes (\) which are usually used in Windows operating systems. Also, I
recommend using short file names for paths, as the longer filenames have
directories delimiters can either be forward slashes (/) or backslashes (\)
which are usually used in Windows operating systems. Also, I recommend
using short file names for paths, as the longer filenames have
spaces in them that sometimes cause problems, therefore, the installation
procedure may look something like this:

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Scott Cain
cain@cshl.org
1/3/2003
1/8/2003

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