Hi Doug: As you know I have recently disabled the Perl/PDL examples by default. However, that does not preclude trying the examples using the PLplot cmake option -DENABLE_pdl=ON. When I did that today, there were some complications due to the recently removed deprecated functions, and the soname version bump that occurred for the 5.9.7 release and which will occur again for the 5.9.8 release (partially due to those removed deprecated functions).
I have appropriately updated the PDL::Graphics::PLplot-0.52 build and install instructions at examples/perl/README.perldemos. Note, those instructions include patching plplot.pd as per examples/perl/plplot.pd.patch to consistently remove deprecated API from PDL::Graphics::PLplot that has also been recently removed from PLplot. Here are the current diff results for the Perl/PDL examples against the corresponding C versions. perl Missing examples : 33 Differing postscript output : 03 04 16 18 19 25 26 27 29 30 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : The widespread nature of these differences was my original motivation for disabling testing of the Perl/PDL examples by default, but all the complications you have to go through as indicated in examples/perl/README.perldemos to even perform this test is another excellent reason for disabling the tests of the Perl/PDL examples by default for now. Of course, once you have adjusted PDL::Graphics::PLplot to be consistent with the latest updated PLplot API for the svn trunk version (which will soon turn into the 5.9.8 release), then the instructions in examples/perl/README.perldemos (which I hope you update when the time comes) should be much simpler, and I presume that will allow us to enable Perl/PDL by default again. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
