I agree of all this. Just consider the COMPLETE ignorant, stubling onto the PDL site, and not knowing much of perl. or: somebody that has got PDL source files from some other site, and wants to run it.
At this moment, the PDL site will be a) an advertisement for PDL (wow ! if only I could do all these things ) - which is good b) tongue-in-cheek (what is this perl, that PDL apparently succeeds) - which is disappointing Explaining all about perl is too much indeed, and not needed. Having a link to a perl site (preferably cpan) helps. Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Jan Hoogenraad > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 ). > > Why is that? > > >> For the complete newbie, on source install, a link to cpan.org is helpful. > > How so? None of the instructions require you to go to cpan.org. And if > you are missing Perl, I think there are better places to obtain it > than cpan (e.g. get it from your distribution, or ActiveState). > > Daniel. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
