It looks like we need a bit of cleanup
to the tests before a release can be
made.  There are a lot of failures that
seem to be from 1 or 2 of the tests.
These would be good candidates for
TODO.

--Chris

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a CPAN developers release from the latest
> PDL git.  Highlights are many bugs fixed and
> some polishing and docs improvement over all.
>
> If this tests well, it could be the basis for a near term
> PDL stable release to address the problem of PDL
> not building for win32 for the ActivePerl PPMs.
>
> Enjoy!
> The PDL Development Team
>
> Release Notes for PDL 2.4.11_001 --------------------------
>
> General Notes:
>
>  * Another quick CPAN developers release
>
>    - It is a snapshot of the current git development tree
>      and everything may not work correctly or have complete
>      documentation.
>
>    - These release notes may not be fully complete.  Please
>      see Changes (from the git log) for full details.
>
>    - All tests may not pass, especially ones corresponding
>      to issues in Known_problems.
>
>    - Manual build/install is recommended although the
>      cpan shell may be used by specifying the distribution
>      path rather than just the module name, e.g.:
>
>        cpan> get  CHM/PDL-2.4.11_001.tar.gz
>        cpan> make CHM/PDL-2.4.11_001.tar.gz
>        cpan> test CHM/PDL-2.4.11_001.tar.gz
>        cpan> look CHM/PDL-2.4.11_001.tar.gz
>
> Highlights:
>
>  * perldl -glut support for the FreeGLUT or Apple GLUT
>    has been modified to use the new Term::ReadLine
>    event_loop method instead of previous custom code.
>    If you install Term::ReadLine version 1.09 or
>    greater, the GLUT event loop will run while the
>    command line text interface is still active.  The
>    imag2d routine will detect the feature and will not
>    require twiddling to work with the display windows.
>
>  * The p shortcut to display output in the PDL shells has
>    been reverted to its previous 2.4.10 behavior.  If you
>    wish it to be an exact alias for print just override in
>    your .perldlrc or local.perldlrc file.
>
>  * Added Boundary=>'Replicate' option to conv2d and med2d.
>
>  * Added warning if conv1d is used on a piddle with the
>    badflag set.  This prevents the unintentional corruption
>    of numeric data by treating the badvalue as a number for
>    convolution processing.
>
>  * Fixed hist() handling of the case of fractional steps
>    in integral input data types.  Sf.net bug #3588182
>
>  * Fixed error report bug in perldl that resulted from a
>    change in the way perl handles eval exception reporting.
>
>  * Fix rim() 3-arg form.  Added tests to support and verify
>    the development.
>
>  * Fixed 16-bit PNM raw format handling (sf.net bug #3475075)
>
>  * Fixed dummy() to generate a valid syntax for the underlying
>    call to slice().  This was sf.net bug #3479009.
>
>  * Fixed bug in PNG format detection on win32 platforms.
>    Sf.net bug #3563903.
>
>  * qsort[vec] are now inplace aware
>
>  * Fix handling of complex 0 values.
>
>  * Update polyfill and polyfillv routines to the algorithm
>    from pnpoly: faster and more accurate on edge pixels.
>
>  * PDL::IO::NDF has been moved to its own distribution on
>    CPAN.
>
>  * Added an unpdl method which is (roughly) the inverse
>    operation of pdl in the sense that it generates a
>    perl structure corresponding to the input piddle.
>
>  * Add lgamma support for MinGW-built perls with tests
>    to match.
>
>  * Fix NaN sign issues as reported (and fixed!) by Matthew
>    McGillis with contributions by Sisyphus to resolve windows
>    MVSC compiler/runtime issues.
>
>  * Support for additional random number generators to PDL::GSL
>    thanks to John Lapeyre.
>
>  * Many debian distribution fixes.

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