On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
A very argument that. I am happy with the situation as is. > Cheers, > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory > Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
