On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:10 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I meant to say, "A very *fair* argument that." Additionally, I meant that I am happy with the way situation is with SciKarl. I still hope that we (meaning, mainly the developers) can help make the custom PDL install process also easier than it is, but I think it has already become fairly easy. Of course, anyone doing a custom installation is expected to know how to work around configure and make. > >> 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 > ======================================================================= > -- 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
