The page http://pdl.perl.org/future/?page=install is nice & clean. Thanks.
After I select binaries, the back button does not lead to the empty page. This is confusing to me, leading me to believe a new window was opened (and after closing that, finding out that I closed the perldl window). Can you put some text on the "empty" selection (e.g.: If a newbie does not understand the choice, it's probably safer that the binaries are used for non-windows, and sources/CPAN on windows ). For the complete newbie, on source install, a link to cpan.org is helpful. For example perl (another dependency ...), both sources and binaries for all platforms, can be found there. Chris Marshall wrote: > On 8/1/2010 8:44 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: >>> Looks good to go... >> >> Yay! \o/ >> >> I have pushed all the changes to the main site. I've also pushed the >> changes to the Git repository. With that done, I'd like to present a >> motion for the deletion of the following wiki pages: >> >> * Installing_PDL_the_quick_and_easy_way >> * Installing_PDL_on_Ubuntu_6.10_Edgy_Eft >> * Installing_PDL_on_Ubuntu_7.10_Gutsy_Gibbon >> * Installing_PDL_on_Knoppix >> * Installing_PDL_on_Gentoo >> * Installing_PDL_on_a_Linux_Debian_based_operating_system_for_power_users >> * Installing_PDL_on_Linux >> * Installing_PDL_on_Windows > > Sounds good to me. > >> The information in all these pages is now superseded by the new >> install page. That leaves only two installation pages: >> >> * Installing_PDL_on_Mac_OS_X >> * Installing_PDL_Manually > > Yes, these will need to be reworked. I expect to > have some notes when I get to checking things for > the PDL-2.4.7 release. Both these pages are pretty > out-of-date with respect to the current status of > PDL git but it doesn't make sense to rework them > until the PDL-2.4.7 pre releases get a bit further > along. > >> I think that the "Install Manually" page should point to the OS X >> page, just so that the page doesn't fall through the cracks. Then >> maybe later someone can review these pages and improve them or >> harmonize them. > > I would point the install manually to both of > the wiki pages for now. As people test the new > release, if they work through the pages, they > can edit their corrections. > >>> I plan to review as I go but my main focus is on >>> finishing the pdl2 shell compatibility with the >>> version 1 shell, perldl. My suggestion would be >>> to stand up the new docs corresponding to the >>> coming PDL-2.4.7 release as soon as possible to >>> avoid a big crunch at the end. >>> >>> Maybe even put a link at the top of the main >>> PDL site page for folks who are interested in >>> trying/reviewing the new content. >> >> I'll put up an announcement tomorrow. > > --Chris > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
