Hi Chris,

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Chris Marshall wrote:
> 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.

That is exactly how I meant it. Cross-platform. It doesn't see right
to make a special Mac-only distribution with more than just PDL (as
Karl said) and not do the same for other platforms. So I wanted to
talk about making a cross-platform SciPerl that has the extra
features.


> 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.

Why not call it "PDL Bundle" then?


Daniel.
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