Many thanks, Chris! --Doug Hunt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer III UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Chris Marshall wrote: > The PDL-2.4.4 release has been uploaded to CPAN > and should appear at a mirror near you within the next > few days. The release features enabled bad value > support, many bugs fixed, and improved support on > many platforms. > > Enjoy! > The PDL development team > > Release notes for PDL 2.4.4 ------------------------------ > > General Notes: > > - Bad value support is now enabled by default for > PDL builds. This feature allows simpler handling > of missing or invalid data during processing. > > For example, missing pixels could be interpolated > across. Calculations could be skipped for > missing data points... > > Edit the perldl.conf file to turn off bad value > support before compiling if needed. > > - This release includes significant improvments > in portability, enhancements in functionality, > and *many* bugs fixed. > > - PDL::Graphics::TriD modules for 3-D and image > visualization are being refactored for improved > portability and performance. Preliminary hooks > are in PDL-2.4.4 to support the new functionality. > > Announcements to the perldl mailing list will be > made when the PDL::Graphics::OpenGL::Perl and > Term::ReadLine::FreeGLUT suport is on CPAN. > > - Builds out-of-the-box on cygwin and win32 > > - perl 5.6.x is explicitly required to configure and > will go away in future versions. 5.8.x and above > are the recommended versions > > Summary of Changes: > > - Improve uuencode support in Dumper for additional OSes > such as *BSD varieties that may need additional options > to prevent stripping of the leading slash in pathnames > including: darwin, netbsd, openbsd, freebsd, and dragonfly. > > - Updated more PDL tests to use the recommended Test::More > > - Updated PDL::Graphics::PLplot build support for more 5.9.0 > specific features > > - AutoLoader ~ expansion has been updated to conform more > closely to the ~ expansion in the bash shell > > - Better checks for a valid PROJ4 build environment are now > performed before attempting to compile PDL modules using it > > - PDL now builds and runs on perl-5.10.x > > - The perldl shell has added support for using FreeGLUT for > display in analogy with the existing Tk event loop support. > This enables refactoring of the TriD modules to use the > Perl OpenGL module (a.k.a. POGL) instead of the internal, > and deprecated, PDL::Graphics::OpenGL et. al. > > - The perldl acquire/filter/execute loop is now $_-safe by > using $lines instead of $_ for all the central modifications. > Avoids problems with some AUTOLOAD functions that leaked $_. > > - Removed ExtUtils::F77 from the required prerequisites for > PDL to improve the buildability on platforms without an > available fortran compiler. If you have a fortran compiler > and EU::F77 installed, PDL::Slatec will be built. > > - zeros function added as an alias for the zeroes function > > - Many warning messages that were not actually problems have > been quieted, especially many pointer to int conversion messages > > - Added $PERLDL::HISTFILESIZE to allow configuration of the number > of lines of history to be saved by the interactive PDL shell. > > - Fixed implementation of the pctover() function to address bug > #2019651 on sf.net. Added explicit documentation in the code > on the algorithm being used. > > - Various updates to the PDL FAQ > > - Implemented a PDL interface to the Minuit minimization library > from CERN > > - Removed circular dependency in PDL Makefile.PL Makefile generation > process which caused builds with some versions of make to fail > > - Multiple fixes to enhance configuration and build for win32 > > - Added basic table-inversion to t_lookup for PDL::Transform > > - Fixed problem in uniqvec() where it failed to generate a correct > result if all the input vectors were the same, fixed bug #1869760 > > - Add improved 16-bit image support for IO with rpic() and wpic() > provided you have a recent version of the NetPBM library that > supports 16-bit images > > - Enabled building of GSL on Win32. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PDL-porters mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/pdl-porters > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
