P Kishor wrote:
> 
  > 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.

The new PDL install appears to work on some Mac OS X machines
and the TriD module is ported as well.  That should give you
3D graphics of some sort.  I can't speak to the 2D graphing
package other than to acknowledge that it is *outstandingly*
difficult to debug software on a system one does not have.

> 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.

Does the latest PDL+TriD help out?

> 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.

Feedback always welcome.

Thanks,
Chris

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