[Perldl] Re: Is PDL Abandonware?

[Christian Soeller]

Hi Jake, A new version of PDL just came out ~2 weeks ago. So it's not dead yet, it was just restin'  ;) Lot's of work has also gone into making it build on Win32 out of the box. Not sure if anybody has as yet made PPMs. I'll CC to the perldl mailing list for further input on win32. Re ExtUtils::F77 I believe I made a f2c replacement that works on win32, it is somewhere in the win32 directory of the source dist and perhaps other alternatives exist. By the way, our current release manager, Chris Marshall, might be based at MIT as well (?), so you might be able to talk to him directly. Christian On 31/08/2006, at 1:46 AM, Jake Jaffe wrote: Hi Christian Soeller, This email is sent somewhat on a lark.  I've developed some software in Perl for interpration of mass spectrometry data that relies on PDL (http://www.mcponline.org/cgi/reprint/M600222-MCP200v1).  We plan to release it via our GenePattern suite (http://www.broad.mit.edu/cancer/software/genepattern/index.html) that allows reproducible data analysis pipelines to be generated.  This is a multiplatform package and requires that I be able to support Linux/MacOS/Win32.  GenePattern actually comes with a stripped down version of ActiveState Perl in its Win32 distribution.  It seems like you have been instrumental in many of the PDL ports to Win32.  The current Perl in GenePattern is 5.6, and your PPM for that rev works fine.  However, it will be updated to 5.8 in a short time and thus I will need to have a working version of PDL (specifically PDL::Fit::Polynomial) for that.  I'm interested in porting more recent version to ActiveState, but not sure if it's worth it, as the main PDL website pdl.perl.org seems to be abandoned and there hasn't been a new PDL rev in quite some time.  Anyway, if you can offer any advice I'd be appreciative.  If I compile with MinGW can I get it to work with ActiveState, or will it only work with MinGW compiled Perl?  It seems like it might be hard to get ExtUtils::F77 to compile for ActiveState, too.  Anyway, since it seems that you were closely involved with PDL at one time I just thought I would try to get your opinion on whether it will be worth it to go through the effort of porting it, or whether I should just re-implement the functionality in a different way. Sincerely, Jake Jaffe --  Jacob D. Jaffe, Ph.D. Proteomics Group The Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center - Room 5025 Cambridge, MA 02142 (617)324-9742 -- Christian Soeller PhD   Dept. of Physiology  +64 9 3737599 x82770 University of Auckland  Auckland, New Zealand  fax +64 9 3737499

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