I'm replying with a new, appropriate subject since the subject is off of "Website update"
On 7/24/2010 2:56 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: >> See PDL/TODO from the sf.net PDL git or the post to pdl-porters: >> >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/2010-July/006076.html >> >> which give the list of tasks. As for install instructions, that >> will need to be based on the PDL-2.4.7 release and not on the >> PDL-2.4.6 release since things have changed a bit already and >> will continue to do so to meet the release goals. > > Btw, thanks for all your work in making PDL easy to install in all > platforms. This is critical work. Personally, I feel like I cannot > recommend PDL to anyone until I can give them a simple and reliable > way to install it on whatever OS they are running. Thanks, I'm still trying to get help on all platforms. win32, at least, I can test myself but mac os x and unix/linux/*bsd platforms don't have any volunteers for clean room build testing of PDL. They may be complacent since PDL was written originally on/with the assumption of unix-type platforms. :-( >> Given that the primary goal for PDL-2.4.7 is to be able to be >> built, installed, and used on all the major PDL/perl platforms: >> win32, macosx, and *ix/*bsd, this may end up being the main >> sticking point for the release once the coding is done... > > Ok. I guess what I'll do is just make a very basic install page that > just links to the wiki (faulty though it is) and wait for the 2.4.7 > release to write a proper install page with good instructions. Ok. > Do you foresee that 2.4.7 will be easy to install in all platforms? Do > you foresee that 2.4.7 will be mature enough on Windows that I can > give a CD to a colleague and tell them to try it out? I don't know about mature enough since this is planned to be the first real win32 capable PDL release. That said, I expect it to be as operational as the other platforms and perhaps better (or much better) on the install ease since there are two developers working on win32 install issues while none working on the robustness, clean install, ... issues for other OSes. Admittedly, by default, they are doing much better than win32 at the moment. >> The first thing would be to determine what versions of Mac OS X >> that the current SciKarl will build on. The second would be to >> determine if CPAN can be used to update that release in-place. > > We have some OS X users (everyone who submitted logos made with > Illustrator is running OS X). Maybe one of them can help. The difficult part is finding someone who knows enough to debug and/or report issues that come up *and* are willing to put in the work to create a pristine install environment to test with. Basically, that means removing or hiding your existing PDL and dependencies for the tests (maybe multiple times). The PDL/TODO list has plenty of tasks available with different scopes and levels of difficulty. I'm hoping that more folks will be interested in helping out as the final big pieces get working... We'll see... Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
