It is extremely frustrating that installing PDL so that everything works would be such a huge pain in the neck. I have recovered the original PDL I had before. Still no 3D graphics, but at least the other features that worked before still work now. I don't think it has PLplot either. I don't dare try it.
Why does it have to be so difficult to get PDL working on *Linux* of all things? If we were at least talking about a non-unix platform, or some really obscure distribution, I'd understand. But this is plain regular Ubuntu Linux we're talking about. I didn't have to go through this trouble when I installed Octave, Scilab or Gnuplot. Those were just a simple apt-get away. I first experimented with PDL ten years ago. Today it seems to have basically the features it had 10 years ago, and even the website doesn't look like it's changed much. I would think that after 10 years it would be possible to make PDL *install* reliably. If after 10 years it is still not possible to make PDL installable, I have little hope that in another 10 years it will be any better. Daniel. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
