Yes, I can confirm that SciKarl really is a 1 click Mack install. Works like a charm. No hassle at all.
However 3D plotting does not work yet (but should in the next release if I understood correctly). Cheers, Michiel On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Karl Glazebrook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Errr about 'one click Mac installs' - did you try SciKarl ? > > Karl > > > > On 29/10/2009, at 3:42 PM, P Kishor wrote: >> >> Since you asked -- >> >> I approached PDL a few months ago with an incredible amount of >> enthusiasm. To me, it seemed like it would answer all my questions. It >> would replace IDL, it would provide a familiar and completely free >> platform to do all my scientific analysis. And, from there, it went >> bad. I just never could install the darn thing easily on my Mac. Many >> of you very kindly gave me your time and advice. I am very >> appreciative of all that, but the reality is, the first step itself >> was just way too difficult. I wasted so much of my energy and effort >> getting the thing to install on my laptop, I never really got the >> courage to pursue PDL for other analysis work. I tried to do some 3D >> surface plotting, but gave up quicker than I thought of it. Went to R, >> and with a few keystrokes, I had a working model 2 different ways. >> Even IDL was a single click install. >> >> I have kept my subscribed to the list, because I love reading about >> the developments, and reading the code that others write, hoping to >> learn from it. But, mostly, I am simultaneously appreciative of the >> hard work of the developers, and full of trepidation at the torture >> that PDL installation continues to seem to be. >> >> I don't really care about the footprint or the dependencies. Disk >> space is cheap, memory is cheap. What is not cheap is my (or anyone >> else's) time. I want a robust, preferably single-click (single CPAN >> command) install that I know will work reliably on my Mac, and on any >> other Mac that I transfer to (one nice thing about Macs and Windows is >> that once you get something working on one machine, you are pretty >> much guaranteed to have it work on other machines, provided the CPU >> and OS version doesn't change). >> >> Once again, I have a tremendous appreciation for the developers, and a >> lot of, but guarded, amazement at what PDL purports to do. For now, I >> don't have the first hand experience doing anything with PDL other >> than installing it rather painfully. >> >> Yes, I do hear a lot about Numpy and Scipy (a bunch of hackers here at >> Wisc are heavily into Python). Frankly, Python bores me to tears, so I >> will probably stick to IDL until PDL comes home. :-) >> >> Here's hoping. >> >> >>> David >>> >>> P.S. I saw a paper comparing Numpy, PDL, hand-rolled C code, and >>> plain Perl >>> and Python code for computing a numerical integral. Plain old >>> Python and >>> Perl were terribly slow, but Python had two distinct numerical >>> libraries, >>> Numpy and something else. I was jealous. So I don't think it's >>> necessarily >>> bad that Perl has a second numerical data processing project >>> springing into >>> existence. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Perldl mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org >> Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org >> Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org >> Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/ >> kishor >> Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is >> science >> = >> ====================================================================== >> Sent from Madison, WI, United States >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
