Daniel Carrera writes: > > > I take it that you are doing your own > package, independently of Padre.
The goal is a working and portable PDL first. The only all-in-one type package at the moment is the SciKarl distribution for Mac OS X on sourceforge. > 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. Yes, but at least a fully functional PDL *can* be built for/on Ubuntu/linux. > 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 ... You don't give many specifics to go on but it should be possible to get things up and running. If you give more info on what you did, I'm sure another linux user can help you sort out what the problem is. At the least, the wiki needs to have a working recipe for the install. > > 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. Perl is pretty much perl. However, win32 is *not* unix. > 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. I guess you don't use the perldl shell much... :-) I pretty much do all my work interactively with programs and routines being edited and the run from the shell. I mean getting a PDL interactive shell that will run with Padre. One possibility would be to just have a PDL shell window that is only for PDL stuff. I would prefer something a bit more general since an interactive shell for trying things out with perl by itself is pretty handy---especially for newcomers. > > 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. Great! A first start might be sorting out what was wrong in the linux install notes that you were not able to get PDL up and running. Cheers, Chris
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