On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > .. > I'll send you my build document and you can read it for yourself. It may cut > out a lot of head scratching for you! >
Please do. That will be of immense help. > >> 2. If I can build it, then it means that building it is easy enough >> for other newbies to be able to build it as well. In my view, that >> will push PDL that one small step closer to being more usable by most >> normal scientists and not just programmer scientists. >> > > I think there are two separate points here - making it easy to build and > making it useable for newbies can be two separate things! > > That's the idea of SciKarl - you get to play with PDL in a 'minimum useable > state' with a working plotting package and associated libraries already in > place without the agony of 'what the fsck! why doesn't this build properly?' > .. You make a compelling argument. Let me ask you another related question. If I install SciKarl, where will it go? Will it coexist with the stuff I have installed already, or will it overwrite the stuff I have already installed? Will it work with my perl installation (I have 5.10.1), and rest of the perl ecosystem on my computer? Will it install stuff that might get overwritten if I upgrade something else? I think I might be (fairly easily) convinced to quit the sado-masochist routine and just jump on the SciKarl ship with your help. -- 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 ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
