This comes back to an observation I made earlier. At the top of the 'Get PDL' page we need *simple* instructions
1) how to get the PDL source (CPAN, sourceforge) 2) the absolutely minimal install instructions (see generic 3 liner below) 3) 2-3 lines of text that describe that this should get you a minimal PDL, the existence of binary installs for many platforms (point to instructions below) and link to the more complete 'Manual Install' with all dependencies This must be all on the page, not just linked to a wiki page. A new user needs to see that a minimal set of commands should result in a quick but minimal install. I really like Daniel's effort to date but that gaping hole must be plugged quickly. Christian On 30/07/2010, at 11:12 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: > > On 27/07/2010, at 8:02 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > >> * New Mac OS install page, courtesy of P.Kishor and Matthew. > > I don't want to be ungrateful... but these seem a bit over-complicated? They > even talk about Karma which is way past it's use by date. > > poppler? xpdf? what is all this stuff? > > Why not just say > > --- > perl Makefile.PL INSTALLBIN=/usr/local/bin > make test > sudo make install > --- > > I am not kidding, I lift that right out of my old notes on 'Building SciKarl' > and it works just fine (once all the pre-requisities are in place, but they > are not PDL). > > 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? > > Karl > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl -- Christian Soeller PhD Dept. of Physiology +64 9 3737599 x82770 University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand fax +64 9 3737499 _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
