On 31/10/2009, at 1:38 AM, P Kishor wrote: > Ilya Z, author of Numeric::LL_Array, is a long time Perl developer, a > rather brilliant one, and currently teaches/researches at the Cal Math > dept. I feel a bit vindicated in that I was not the only one > experiencing difficulty installing PDL. If Ilya felt it was difficult, > well, then, it must have been difficult. Either that, or he had some > other itch to scratch which caused him to develop his module instead > of sticking it out with PDL. >
I know Ilya from back in v1 days when I had time to follow perl-porters Let me just say that anything he writes is likely to be completely orthogonal to what we want :-) > That said, here is an important response to Karl. First, I am very > appreciative of his SciKarl work, although, I haven't used it myself. > Here is why. Karl said -- > SciKarl is currently at 2.4.3, while PDL is now at 2.4.5. Unless this > one click install is done at the "source," it will always be behind > the canonical version (by the way, "one click" is metaphorical; yes, > it can be a two click or a three click install, a cpan install, or a Someone needs to compile it, test it and then make the package. That someone is me and I get 200 emails a day about other crises being a Senior Professor now and Deputy Director of a major astronomy institute. I USE 2..4.3 every day (to deal with those crises) so you can imagine I am not on the bleeding edge! BUT - Matt Kenworthy just volunteered to take it over... I sent him some info. Maybe this will solve the problem. Maybe it is possible to build a Apple Package automatically? (i.e. without a mouse). I don't know. In any case - is SciKarl what you had in mind (assuming it was not two versions behind?) BTW2 - IF you have SciKarl I think you could just install newer versions of the PDL core very easily. All the other stuff installed by SciKarl just remains the same? Karl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
