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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