[ Combining responses to two intermingled threads ] Hi All-
I'm glad to see discussion regarding the Mac OS X PDL distribution documentation and distributions as that was something that has been lagging quite a bit. I have a few thoughts relating to the points below. Karl Glazebrook wrote: > > SciKarl was just my joke riipping off > scisoft. > > But note it contains a bit more than > PDL. (pgplot, cfitsio, etc.) The new name > whatever it is should reflect that. Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Maybe we should make a "SciPerl" distribution > that includes PDL plus other stuff, > statically compiled if necessary. Add > PDL::Stats, and whatever else seems useful. I would expect a SciPerl (from the name) to be more cross-platform than just working on the Mac. PDL-2.4.7 will be a big improvement over PDL-2.4.6 but the one thing that *won't* be ready is making PDL build cross-platform without expert intervention or a manual build by recipe. How about something like a SciPDL bundle for Macs? I'm not sure we're ready to take on the scientific distribution for all of perl. Matt Kenworthy wrote > > I have a vague plan to update SciKarl (about > to be renamed to SciPDL) once every six > months, starting with an updated version in > the next month or so. > > What would the Mac PDL enthusiasts like to > have in the latest release? Does it come with PLplot? If not, I would like to see it in there as that is the direction we're trying to go as far as a common, available 2D plotting interface for PDL. Even win32 will have it on PDL-2.4.7. Karl Glazebrook wrote: > > Sorry but I think it makes building PDL > on a Mac seem a lot harder than it really > is. Perhaps this stuff can be moved to an > 'advanced frills' wiki page? P Kishor wrote: > > I will slim the custom page down to an easy > './configure, make, make install' three-step, > and suggest "advanced frills" for bungee > jumpers and masochists. Good idea. Ideally, the notes would be based on using the system perl with a user defined local module location (not /usr/local, arbitrary). A lot of the difficulty with this install was sorting out the non-standard library locations for everything including perl. Even PDL developers should not have to build their own perl to make PDL compile. If that is needed then PDL is worse on portability that we thought! Building your own perl + everything a la GenToo linux is definitely an advanced manual build process. Karl Glazebrook wrote: > > BTW here are my complete SciKarl build notes > for reference. Spot the similarity. > > Matt probably has a newer version. BTW I hope > he will retain PGPLOT in SciKarl, at least > for a few more generations... PGPLOT is the most supported 2D plotting library for PDL at the moment. I think we should keep it available as long as relevant. Admittedly, some of the problems there are the license restrictions. Cheers, Chris
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