On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]>wrote:
> Has anyone used PDL under Mountain Lion? I'm considering upgrading but > don't want to set myself back a week or more... > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > I have not tried. I doubt it will give trouble with PDL directly. Something that may impact some of your Gnuplot code (in a very minor way) is that Mountain Lion no longer ships the X11 libraries (see here<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293>and here<http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/17/apple-removes-x11-in-os-x-mountain-lion-shifts-support-to-open-source-xquartz/>). Users can still download and install XQuartz<http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/>, the open source Mac X11 project, on their own. If Gnuplot normally builds the X11 device on Mac, this may require some attention. It should have no trouble creating the Aquaterm device, but it will no longer have the X11 device. Also, if you normally use ssh with X-forwarding, you'll have to install XQuartz. This switch on Mac's part is actually a big issue for marketing Prima since Prima's Mac code uses X11. Mind you, it's still possible for users to install XQuartz, but it's no longer included "by default." I've thought about how Prima might handle this to maintain is marketing claim of "Installs anywhere from CPAN with no external dependency hassle (expect on Linux, sorta)," but I've not come to a conclusion. One option is to create a Alien module. Another thought (which I'd prefer) is to write Cocoa bindings for Prima, but I've not even gone so far as to write the email making the proposal for that. I've heard it won't be too difficult, since Cocoa provides a straight-forward vector drawing API, but it'll still take some work. David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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