Cheers to all, many extremely useful improvements! Thanks, Kaj
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > It is with great pleasure that the PDL development team > announces the release of the latest version of the PDL > Data Language with 64bit platform support. > > This release would not have been possible without the > contributions of developersChris Marshall, Craig DeForest, > Derek Lamb, Dima Kogan, Rob/Sisyphus, David Mertens, > Diab Jerius, William Parker, and Henning Glawe. > > A special thanks also to those who helped with bug > reports, problem discussions, and, of course, participation > in CPAN Testers which has helped to make the best > tested PDL release ever! > > Enjoy and Happy PDL-ing! > The PDL Development Team > > > > > Release Notes for PDL 2.007 -------------------------- > > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | BE WARNED: This release includes an update to the internal, | > | C-level PDL API for PDL versions 2.006 and earlier. This | > | will require that you re-build any PP or XS modules. Do not | > | upgrade or install over an existing PDL installation unless | > | you are prepared to do so!!! | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > General Notes: > > * PDL computations now use 64bit indexing/addressing if > your platform supports it (i.e., your perl configuration > has $Config{ivsize} == 8). > > - You can process with pdls with more then 2**32 elements. > > - Memory mapped file IO supports up to 8TB files which > allows much simpler processing of large data files. > (See mapflex in PDL::IO::FlexRaw for details) > > * PDL-2.007 has a new, unified slicing engine and syntax > that consolidates the multiple slicing variants into > a backward compatible but now 64bit aware slice. See > the PDL::Slices for the new syntax that is enabled. > > * PDL::FFTW has moved to its own distribution on CPAN > and is no longer in the PDL core distribution. Look > for PDL::FFTW3 coming to CPAN soon. > > * Some required dependencies have been update to more > recent versions: > > - ExtUtils::MakeMaker now requires version 6.56 or > higher, the minimum version with CONFIGURE_REQUIRES > support. > > - Perl OpenGL 0.6702 is now required for PDL::Graphics::TriD > to build. This fixes a number of critical bugs and should > be a seamless upgrade. > > - File::Map version 0.57 is required. This fixes map_anonymous > support for the >2**32 sizes needed for 64bit support. > Legacy mmap support for unix platforms is no longer > supported. The distribution requires File::Map so you > should not notice the change. > > * Incompatible Changes: > > - PDL::FFT now uses the same sign convention as FFTW and > the rest of the world, -1/+1 for forward and reverse > FFT respectively. > > - C/XS API of PDL-2.007 is incompatible with previous > PDL releases. If you upgrade to PDL-2.007, you *will* > need to re-install or upgrade *all* dependent XS or PP > based modules. > > - PDL now auto-promotes array refs in many places that > previously required a piddle (so you can say, e.g., > "$a->index([2,3])" instead of "$a->index(pdl(2,3))"). > > - String syntax for slice() specifications now ignore > white space. > > * The clean up of the PDL core distribution continues and > PDL-2.007 is no exception. Many bug fixes, documentation > updates, code and implementation improvements make this > the best testing PDL release to date. > > Highlights: > > * FITS IO improvements and fixes: > > - Added 'afh" option to rfits to allow explicit use of > legacy hash parser for performance reasons. > > - New multiple extension writing support for wfits. > > * Added pp_deprecate_module() to PDL::PP > > * New mode/modeover functions in PDL::Ufunc > > * Made exception handling in slices more robust. > > * PDL::CLONE_SKIP added for improved ithread support. > > * Updated graticule() in PDL::Transform::Cartography to > support NaN-delimited output. > > * Bugs fixes: > > - Fix %hash randomization bugs in PDL tests > > - Fix OpenBSD pthread build problem for non-threaded perls > > - Fix PDL::shape to return vector for 1-D piddles > > - Fix badvalue-on-truncate support for map and for interpND > > - Fix for MSVC++ 6.0 to build on 32bit systems. > MSVC++ 6.0 cannot be used to build 64bit index support. > > - Fix polyfit() handling of BAD values and various edge cases. > > - Fix rare "Bizarre copy of HASH in scalar assignment" > > - Fix rcols with colsep and $PDL::undefval > > - Fix sf.net bug #331 "uniq does not always return proper object" > > - Fix sf.net bug #338 PDL::FFT uses backwards sign convention from FFTW > > - Make PDL::NiceSlice preserve line numbering (sf.net feature #75) > > - PDL::IO::GD->new() is now less picky about it args, and no longer crashes > > - Two bug fixes to transform.pd, and an augmentation > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
