Moin, with my debian PDL package maintainer hat on: 1) there is an easy way to install PDL: using your favourite distribution's equivalent to 'apt-get install pdl'. I think at least the debian packages are quite feature-complete, the most important missing thing is pgperl (well-known license issues; but I ship the PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT, so any user can run PDL with a hand-built version of pgplot). I expect most users would install PDL from their linux distribution's repository (unless the packages are utterly broken or too feature-incomplete; just made a bad experience on opensuse 11, where pdl package is built without any plotting facility and badvalue support is missing, so I could not build plplot support without rebuilding all of pdl...).
2) when modularizing PDL, we have to be extremely careful to keep the core backwards compatible, i.e. a stable api. Neither I nor other distribution package maintainers would be keen on having to break and rebuild 20+ packages just by uploading a new version of the core. this is not such a big problem with the current monolithic pdl. besides the modules contained within the distribution, libgimp-perl is the only debian package depending on PDL, and I plan to upload pdl netcdf bindings sooner or later. -- c u henning _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
