Hi, just to mention it, currently there seems to be a 'two click' solution for the Mac for PDL 2.4.5:
cpan> install OpenGL cpan> install PDL That's pretty close to a one- click solution, and miles away from torture to me ;) . Works for Darwin Seneca.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 and This is perl, v5.8.9 built for darwin-2level & gcc 4.0.1 I never used the advanced graphics features, but even if you want efficient data manipulation, sorting and filtering in Perl for large datasets, it is outstanding, and therefore it is and was worth the time invested in trying to build it. Maybe, if more dependencies are activated it gets more trublesome, but it is a complex piece of software, which integrates many different libraries, thus this cannot come for free. Best Michael Am 30.10.2009 um 05:35 schrieb Chris Marshall: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
