Hi Tim, I'm rebuilding the SciPDL against /usr/bin/perl, as it's the least bad (and most consistently there) version of Perl on a Mac.
Having the ability to choose a perl to build PDL and its dependencies against would be wonderful (and it's been suggested at ~ 1 year intervals), but it's not going to happen with me - I'm going through the struggle of statically linking PGPLOT into PDL, and it's taken me the best part of a day to remind myself of all that horror. I know you weren't suggesting that, but I thought I'd nix that suggestion before it grew too far :) I remember Tim Pickering talking about writing a homebrew script/package/doohickey, so that may be the better way to go, if it exists. And of course there's the very unsatisfying RTFM, which is of no help getting PDL adopters. SciPDL has its warts (no PLplot for starters) but at least it allows you to run the Book examples. Cheers, Matt On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Tim Jenness <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the problems here is that I'm a bit leery of using the system perl > at all for private installations. I stopped doing that years ago as I was > bitten by problems with some bits of the perl coming from rpms and others > from my installs. I now use perlbrew exclusively and my life has much less > pain in it. The decision on what perl PDL should support shouldn't really > be driven by long term maintenance schedules of Linux distributions -- > those guys won't be back porting PDL to their distribution anyhow. It's > many years since 5.8.x came out and there are many features in 5.10 and > 5.12 that are really useful. One of perl's problems recently has been that > most people haven't even noticed 5.10 and above and think perl is a dead > language. I was also intrigued by the recent discussion on Mavericks and > PDL. I wouldn't dream of using /usr/bin/perl on my Mac. > > Note that I can be ignored on all this. I carry no weight. > > -- > Tim Jenness >
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