Hi Puneet, SciKarl is meant to be a 'zero thought' install of PDL, so that's why it it built on Apple Perl. I know (and you know) that if you don't specify the full path for a user installed perl, then PDL won't work. I've seen enough frustration with PDL installations that I want to keep SciKarl associated with Apple's Perl, which is guaranteed to be there. For me, the goal is to get people quickly and painlessly using PDL.
More fundamentally, SciKarl also includes a lot of statically built libraries, and (to put it bluntly) I don't want the hassle of supporting SciKarl PDL against someone's specific Perl / Apple build. If you have your own perl, you should be building your own PDL at that point - a process which is made easier by writing up a recipe and iterating with the mailing list, as is happening now. Maybe there is a way of specifying a specific perl path to install to, and possibly an automated way to autodetect all perl versions on a system and then ask which one to install PDL into. I'm happy to help someone else build that into SciKarl, but I'm not going to do it as I want to get PDL::Book rolling again and help get the documentation straightened out. Cheers, Matt -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
