Two questions --

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is another incremental CPAN developers release
> based on the latest PDL git tree.  It should appear
> at a CPAN mirror site near you within the next few
> days.
>
> As always, to install a developers release via the
> cpan shell, be sure to use the full distribution
> pathname in your install command:
>
>   bash$ cpan
>   cpan> get CHM/PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz
>   cpan> make CHM/PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz
>   cpan> test CHM/PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz
>   cpan> install CHM/PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz
>

Is the above the recommended method? I have never yet installed PDL
via cpan. I have always downloaded the source, fiddled with the
perldl.conf file, and then built PDL.

> If you wish to use the new Perldl2 shell (pdl2),
> you will need to install Devel::REPL as well:
>
>   bash> cpan Devel::REPL
>

The above seems to require MooseX! Really?

punk...@lucknow ~$sudo cpanm Devel::REPL
Password:
Fetching 
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/F/FR/FREW/Devel-REPL-1.003011.tar.gz
... OK
Configuring Devel-REPL-1.003011 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: MooseX::Object::Pluggable, Sys::SigAction,
Data::Dumper::Concise, MooseX::Getopt, Moose, Lexical::Persistence,
Data::Dump::Streamer, namespace::clean, MooseX::AttributeHelpers
..

> See the Perldl2/README file for more information on
> installing and using the new shell version.
>
> Enjoy,
> Chris
>
>
> Release notes for PDL 2.4.6_011 --------------------------
>
> General Notes:
>
>  * This is a developers release! It is a snapshot of the
>    current git development tree and everything may not work
>    correctly or have complete documentation (as in these
>    Release notes).
>
>  * The main purpose for this release is the additional
>    diagnostics in the t/proj_transform.t which may lead
>    to an understanding of what the problem is there.
>
> Highlights:
>
>  * pdl2 (the new Perldl2 shell now supports all major
>    functions of perldl.  If you have installed the latest
>    Devel::REPL you should be able to use this shell as
>    an enhanced replacement for perldl.  Feedback welcome!
>
>  * Fix sf.net bug #3021578 re missing xtra dummy dims
>
>  * Add error diagnostics to dummy() in PDL::Core when the
>    required position argument is not present.  The new
>    message now mentions the dummy() method instead of just
>    a line number in Core.pm.
>
>  * Update bess[jy][01n] docs in math.pd
>    Fix refs for floor/ceil/rint to use integer
>
>  * Use is() instead of ok() in t/proj_transform.t
>
>    That should give more diagnostic output for failing tests
>    to help debug the recent test failures for cygwin 1.7 and
>    freebsd 8.0.
>
>
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