On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: >> having to write platform-specific instructions. You still have to show >> users where to get a build environment with gcc, make and libc and how >> to set it up. This step alone is more complicated and no less >> platform-specific than the PDL binary install. So you don't save >> anything. In fact, you just made it more complicated because now the >> user has to setup several packages (gcc, make, libc, cpan) instead of >> just one (PDL) and all that is just as platform-specific as the PDL >> install you were trying to replace. > > Whoa. I've *never* read any source install where the first step is > 'install gcc'! > > Assuming gcc and make are available is considered pretty safe with linux. >
Not on a Mac though. You need to install Xcode in order to get gcc on a Mac. So, you can install binary applications (for example, one-click SciPDL or whatever it might be called in the future) on a Mac without Xcode, but in order to install anything, no matter how simple, via cpan, you do need to install Xcode first. > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- 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
