On 7/31/2010 6:24 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Chris Marshall wrote:
>> The binary install is already on the install page.
>> What was left off was easy instructions for anyone
>> who actually wants to install PDL (as a perl module).
>>
>> For them, and others with a development environment
>> on their system, the simple source build instructions
>> are the ones they need. In this case, PDL mostly
>> does build out of the box. I may not build all
>> possible dependencies but it does build a working
>> PDL.
>>
> ...
>> Maybe the third section could be install
>> reference and the topic ordering could
>> be:
>>
>> 'get binary PDL'
>> 'get source PDL'
>> 'PDL install reference guide'
>
> I can agree to this. How does this look:
>
> http://pdl.perl.org/future/?page=install
It is nice to see the standard perl module source
install but the 3 sections would make it clearer
to all, for one thing the *many* linux flavors and
options make the installs a bit confusing.
And I would continue to point out that the one
set of instructions that works on all platforms
is the perl module one (after all PDL *is* a
perl module).
How about two sections for this page:
(1) PDL from source (requires standard perl dev env)
* Via CPAN:
cpan PDL (installs all of PDL that
is supported by available
dependencies)
* By hand:
download PDL source distribution
from sf.net download site and extract
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
(2) pre-built PDL packages (using platform package sw)
* Mac OS X
SciKarl from sf.net download
* Windows
TBD
* Linux
Ubuntu/Debian apt-get install pdl pgplot5 libpgplot-perl
Fedora/RHEL yum install perl-PDL plplot-perl
Mandriva urpmi perl-PDL
OpenSUSE yast -i perl-PDL
with the primary focus for this page being
a plain PDL install (to keep things simple).
The manual install page would be referred to
for further information on getting and resolving
dependency requirements for both source and
binary options.
> I do not explain how to setup a build environment. The assumption is
> that the source install is for people who *want* a source install and
> already have a build environment on their computer. I believe that's
> what you said in your post.
Any of that would be in the Detailed Install page
(Manual Install) or whatever. Perhaps we can get
cook up a script to automate the selection for the
ppm installs for win32 based on the perl version.
Cheers,
Chris
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