On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > No, SciPDL is better. It's PDL, not a generalized Science package for > Perl.
+1 for SciPDL, if choosing a generic name for one-click PDL installers for all packages. But, there is a possibility for someone to get confused between just PDL and SciPDL. ++1 for MacPDL, if choosing a name for a Mac-specific one-click PDL installer. But, there is a possibility for someone to get confused whether MacPDL has more or less than SciPDL. +++1 for just calling it PDL no matter what the platform, and then pointing the user to the custom installer. But, there is a strong possibility that custom installers for different platforms will be ever so slightly different. In my opinion, that is ok. Specific strengths of different platforms should be exploited wherever possible. For example, if some genius comes up with a way to leverage Objective C and Mac OS X's built-in, arguably superior graphics capabilities, well, I would love to see such a PDL installation possible. That is what happened with a Mac specific Graphviz package. -- 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
