Fair enough. Maybe in 2.4.8...

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> These are the reasons I think we might be
> getting ahead of ourselves pushing for a
> binary PDL package of some sort before PDL
> actually builds portably on win32, linux,
> *bsd, macosx,...
>
> Not to mention the bad impression that could
> come from PDL "working" on some platforms and
> "not working" on others because of various
> issues with the binary releases and lack of
> full-time maintainers.
>
> --Chris
>
>
>
> On 7/30/2010 6:47 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
>>
>> The issue is every binary bundle needs a
>> maintainer with access to the system in
>> question and a virgin test system. And it's
>> all non-trivial.
>>
>> Volunteers for Linux and Win32 are welcome.
>> Though Linux might be a nightmare.
>>
>> Karl
>
>
>> On 30/07/2010, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>
>>> 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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