On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:15 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
(sent too soon) In other words, -1 for SciPerl because PDL is not the entire world of Perl + science. In fact, the PDL man pages themselves state that, and point out other scientific packages that are built with Perl. -- 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
