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Announcing the release of the latest PDL CPAN Developers
release: CHM/PDL-2.4.6_015.tar.gz which should appear
at a CPAN mirror near you over the next couple of days.
The Release_Notes for this release are enclosed below.
We're beginning the countdown the the PDL-2.4.7 release
planned for the end of August. The releases in the
next few weeks will help us to iron out any final issues
before the official release. As such, testing and
feedback on this release are most welcome. Of particular
interest:
(1) Users willing to test a PDL install on a clean
slate system (at least as far as PDL is concerned).
Please report any issues or questions as that
will help us to fix outstanding portability
problems in the code or in the documentation.
(2) Documentation fact checkers. If you use a feature
of PDL, it would be a great help if you could
review and check the documentation looking for
discrepancies between the documentation and the
current release features.
(3) Bug reports and usability feedback is always welcome.
Thanks and Enjoy!
The PDL Development Team
Release notes for PDL 2.4.6_015 --------------------------
General Notes:
* This is a developers release! It is a snapshot of the
current git development tree and everything may not work
correctly or have complete documentation (as in these
Release notes).
* Perl 5.6.x is no longer supported.
Perl 5.8.x or higher is now required. NOTE: PDL
should still build for 5.6.2 and higher if you edit
the line in the top level Makefile.PL from 5.008_000
back to 5.006_002.
Highlights:
* wmpeg in PDL::IO::Pic now uses ffmpeg to generate the
movie file instead of the outdated mpeg_encode. This
is pretty much a straight translation of the original.
NOTE: Example/IO has a program you can run to create
a quick check movie. As there is no formal test for
this function, feedback on whether this works on your
platform is most welcome. Thanks!
NOTE: For cygwin, ffmpeg requires version 1.7.x to build.
* PDL::Fit::Polynomial has been modified to remove the
Slatec library dependency requesting in sf.net feature
request ticket #2891276.
* Other sf.net bugs fixed:
3030998 PDL::Config does not match actual build configuration
2901170 many warnings w TriD and perl -w
* sf.net bug #117661, PDL::Complex string routine, has
been fixed. In addition, the sum and sumover methods
now support PDL::Complex piddles.
* Problem with Ctrl-C killing perldl on win32 has been
resolved. The 2nd Ctrl-C was resulting in an EOF from
the perl readline call which caused the shell to exit.
Now $PERLDL::NO_EOF=1 is the default for win32.
* Set SKIP_KNOWN_PROBLEMS environment variable to skip
tests correspond to reported sf.net bugs. This allows
the full test suite to pass which makes it easier to
check if a new bug has been introduced. For releases,
there is a SKIP_KNOWN_PROBLEMS option in perldl.conf.
* Some minor doc changes.
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