It's a matter of me having time to rebuild everything with the new releases and put it out.
I'd be happy to pass this on to a volunteer - it seems I never have time for this stuff any more. I can send the recipe. Karl On 30/10/2009, at 12:02 AM, Michiel Lambrechts wrote: > 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
