As a comment from a not-too-power user: yes, a tutorial would be lovely, but the installation is a serious problem right now. I'd say a first step is to contact whomever at Activestate runs their builds and help them get PDL to build on all their supported platforms. I tried for days to build PDL using Mingw on win32 and had no luck. I'm not even completely incompetent with this kind of thing, but there were just too many issues. I had an easier time on Linux (though all I tried was on my Fedora 5 box) but I think I still had to tweak and restart the build a couple of times.
A third issue: Perl. I love it, you love it, but alas, we may be in (a shrinking) minority.
-- dave jacobowitz
On 6/26/06, Karl Glazebrook
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Xavier Calbet wrote:
> This is what I find everywhere, people
> tend to choose other alternatives
> (IDL, MatLab, even Python!!) before PDL.
> Even though PDL is probably the best option.
>
> The question is how to overcome this?
> Maybe a simple introductory tutorial
> would help.
Yes I am now getting increasingly motivated to get back to the
tutorial thing.
Another issue is ease of installation of PDL + a set of basic support
libs. I have it cracked now on Mac OS X but linux and windows remain
an issue. Linux is difficult because of the wide variety of distros,
however the all work with the IDL binary distro so it may be doable.
Of course a third issue is peer recommendation. IDL is incredibly
popular here because everybody else uses it. Outside the U.S. not so
much,
A fourth issue is perl gets a bad rep in some places.
Karl
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