Any reason not to use showmetheshell and Plack to make a local
in-browser pdl2 shell? I could mock that up in just a few hours and it
would be totally cross-platform.

Joel

https://github.com/vti/showmetheshell

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to see a GUI REPL that could tie into
> the existing pdl2 or perldl shells.  Basically, we
> would need something that would support Term::ReadLine
> and connect to STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR and would
> work with win32 from the start.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> You go for the command-line option, I'll work on packaging my gui repl. But
>> do NOT send the resulting files to the mailing lists. They will be huge.
>> Create a project on sourceforge.net or github.com and post links to the list
>> instead.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to working this!
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2012 4:47 AM, "MARK BAKER" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> So what we need to do is get a person from Windows , Linux , Mac
>>> to work on a  Tk interface then those three people need to collaborate
>>> so to make sure that all three are the same as far as functionality and
>>> overall look...  then we need to use the PAR::Packer and pp to then make
>>> a (Windows linux Mac exe) and other extensions for the other Operating
>>> systems
>>>
>>> Where if we click the exe with out a script then it goes to a command line
>>> PDL interface
>>> I will make some examples for Windows and Linux as I dont have a Mac Yet
>>> ...
>>>
>>> they will be command line only interfaces but I will send them as a
>>> attachment in a
>>> Tar to the Perldl list so every can download and see if they have any bugs
>>> unless there is a better way to get them to be tested
>>> Please Let me know !!
>>>
>>> Cheers !
>>>
>>> --Mark R baker
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: David Mertens <[email protected]>
>>> To: Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:04 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Perldl] Let us Kvetch! (was: PDL book checking)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Matthew Kenworthy
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> *my personal take, and this thread does have "kvetch" in the subject :) *
>>>
>>> > Alien is the conceptual namespace given to managing (or at least
>>> > querying)
>>> >
>>> > local::lib provides a simple cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac,
>>> > probably
>>> >
>>> > This is terrific, but what changed over the last couple of years in PDL
>>> > that
>>> > made this possible?
>>>
>>> One click installations with 2D plotting for all platforms makes all
>>> the difference. It means that I can point collaborators to an install
>>> package, and get them using my scripts ASAP. My collaborators don't
>>> care at all about Alien, local::lib, CPAN or dependencies. They want
>>> something that works without thinking about the installation or
>>> support.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is a version of one-click that I would *love* to see, and which
>>> should happen, I think and hope, by this fall:
>>>
>>> cpan Task::PDL::David
>>>
>>> If I can point an interested user to a one click install of PDL and it
>>> works, then we have a new user of PDL. As soon as they hit one
>>> roadblock, they're *gone*. It doesn't matter if it was a non-PDL
>>> dependency fail, they assume it's a PDL problem and they walk away.
>>> When you can seamlessly install SciPy with one click but your build of
>>> PDL requires knowledge of CPAN to build it, you immediately lose out
>>> on the mindshare.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like a GUI interface to CPAN would be really helpful. Perhaps we
>>> can write something using Prima so it's cross-platform?
>>>
>>>
>>> Unless there is a driving reason why they need to
>>> install/configure/maintain some package, people will go with what is
>>> (a) run by their friends/associates, so they have someone to ask them
>>> for local help, and (b) something that has a huge online support
>>> community with immediate response time.
>>>
>>> My current view of the PDL community is that there is a group of about
>>> 100-200 people who use and run PDL code, with 10 to 20 people in
>>> active voice on the mailing lists, and a significant fraction of these
>>> people have used PDL for > 5 years. If anyone knows what the current
>>> email distribution size is, it would be interesting to know.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>> It turns out that if you are registered on the mailing list, you can get
>>> these details. The Perldl (users) mailing list has 175 non-digested
>>> subscribers and 29 digested subscribers. The Porters list has 51
>>> non-digested subscribers and 6 digested subscribers. The number of people
>>> who *use* PDL could be far bigger, for all we know. Also, there are about
>>> four regulars on IRC (and two regular bots).
>>>
>>> I argue that one-click installers are only easy to implement if the
>>> underlying library is well structured. This may take some one-time effort
>>> for SciPDL, but if that's your only complaint, I would be happy to help out
>>> with that. The first step would be to put instructions on the wiki for how
>>> SciPDL is currently built. We can only enhance the build process once it's
>>> known.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> --
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