Hi Chris, > Not a stupid idea. We're actually working in that direction. > The initial goal is "one-click installs" for all PDL platforms.
Yay. :-) I take it that you are doing your own package, independently of Padre. > Probably the biggest obstacle is managing external dependencies > for win32 (linux/unix/mac os x all have some sort of package > manager that can be used to install a package and its dependencies). I'm on Ubuntu. Installing core pdl was easy, but OpenGL has been a major issue. So even Linux users would benefit from the one-click install. I just managed to compile the CPAN OpenGL module. If I wasn't a geek, I wouldn't have managed that much. But PDL is still not happy: perldl> demo 3d Bareword "GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/PDL/Graphics/TriD/GL.pm line 651 ... lots of error messages ... :-( I think you'll make a lot of people happy with the one-click PDL install. > > The 'Padre' project already offers a stand-alone package for > > Windows, Linux (experimental) and Mac (experimental) which includes > > Perl 5.10 and Padre. > > We are working on support for this. Initially we are looking > at getting PDL compatible with Strawberry perl so that it might > be released with the Strawberry Perl Pro release (or whatever > they call it). Is this difficult to do? I naively thought that "Perl is Perl" and PDL would "just work" on Strawberry Perl. > The two missing pieces are integration with the PDL on-line > documentation and the interactive development shell. Most > matlab/scipy users expect an interactive shell environment. You mean, giving Padre an interactive shell and integration with PDL docs? That would be great. But I don't think it's half as important as the "one-click" PDL + Padre install. > Once we can run "the same PDL" across all platforms, this would > be something very nice to have. Part of making something easily > available is making it easily used. That includes good docs, > intuitive help, tutorials,... all of which incremental contributions > can make a big difference in the perceived quality of PDL. I think PDL has fairly good docs, it's just all disorganized and hard to find. If I ever manage to get edit access to the wiki without an infinite redirect loop I will be happy to organize them. I don't want to many any commitments, but reorganizing existing docs is not too much work, so I can offer to do that. Cheers, Daniel. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
