Alan: OK, lets do it like that! --Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer III UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2008-12-03 17:09-0700 Doug Hunt wrote: > >> Hi Alan, Jerry, PLplot list. >> >> I just started updating the perl/PDL examples for plplot and have run into >> a question. >> >> I updated x02.pl to clean it up and add the second plot that was missing >> (I have not checked anything into SVN yet). In order to make this work, I >> also had to update the PDL::Graphics::PLplot driver, which is part of the >> PDL distribution to add interfaces for some plplot routines not included >> before. A new PDL version is not likely to be forthcoming for a while, >> at least several months, perhaps a year. >> >> I also maintain a stand-alone version of PDL::Graphics::PLplot on CPAN, so >> I could put the required interface changes there. >> >> My question is this: Would it be better to have complete perl/PDL >> examples which depend upon an external PDL module from CPAN, or would it >> be better to have incomplete examples that are compatible with the latest >> PDL release? > > I suggest the former, "complete perl/PDL examples which depend upon an > external PDL module from CPAN". Once that work is completed, I would be > willing to take responsibility for changing our build system to test for the > CPAN version of PDL and change the list of examples in test_perl.sh.in > appropriately depending on whether the current official PDL release or the > CPAN version is available. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
