Installation problem

[person]

Hello,

I'm posting these installation errors for the perl module
"WordNet::QueryData" as requested in the documentation. I'm trying to
install this package in a Windows environment (32-bit) with WordNet
2.1. Are these errors going to affect the performance of the module?
Do they need to be addressed.

Thanks.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

P:\>cd "P:\LWP\WordNet-QueryData-1.47"

P:\LWP\WordNet-QueryData-1.47>perl makefile.pl
Writing Makefile for WordNet::QueryData

P:\LWP\WordNet-QueryData-1.47>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.


P:\LWP\WordNet-QueryData-1.47>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
ok 1
Loading index files. This may take a while...
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[Jason Rennie]

You have to use WN-QD 1.45 with WordNet 2.1.  It's complaining because you're using the wrong WordNet version (1.47 requires WN 3.0).  You can find 1.45 on the QueryData home page.

Jason

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Jason Rennie
Research Scientist, ITA Software
http://www.itasoftware.com/

[person]

Thanks Jason.

[Ben Haskell]

Not to add to any maintenance headaches (i.e. if I'm wrong, don't blame
Jason), but there's no reason 1.47 shouldn't work fine with 2.1, with the
following caveat:

The tests will fail (as you've noticed). I'm pretty sure at least some of
the tests are keyed to the file-offsets, which have the potential to
change with every 'grind'. ( http://wordnet.princeton.edu/othertools )

The reason it should work is that the file formats for version 2.1 and 3.0
are identical. (The version bump was intended to signal the release of
the tagged glosses, which ended up getting released about two years later
than WN3.0: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/glosstag )

Best,
Ben

[Jason Rennie]

Ben's WN format knowledge is at least a few orders of magnitude larger than mine.  As he notes, a few of the QD tests are file-offset specific, even more are sensitive to the sense numbering, so a few failed tests (as you were seeing, James) is probably a result of overly-sensitive tests rather than true incompatibilities.

Btw, James, if you have any comments on/corrections to the Windows installation instructions, do tell.  Most of us use Linux so the Windows instructions are relatively poorly maintained (blame me for that).

Cheers,

Jason