Darn, I really thought it ran on W$!

Oh well, I always do try to think cross-platform, I made a false
assumption in this case. I know (*think*) that Plack is x-platform, so
I thought this would go. NM.

Joel

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, because it is *not* totally cross-platform and
> I'll let you guess which OS it doesn't work on (the
> problem is IO::Pty support).
>
> The unix-only development bias for perl modules is
> a real drag in trying to get win32 perl stuff working.
>
> It is seeming more and more that the only fix
> is going to be doing our own implementation.  :-(
> I know it is possible because IPython works on
> win32....
>
> --Chris
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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