On 2013-04-25 10:15-0600 Doug Hunt wrote: > Hi Alan: I noticed that you did not run the perl/PDL tests. Are they > broken?
Hi Doug: The best situation would be for you to periodically build the latest svn trunk version of PLplot, build your perl/PDL bindings against that, and then test those bindings by running the test_diff_psc target. But to answer your question directly, I am not doing such testing either so I don't know whether your bindings are broken or not. The problem is the method that needs to be used to build and install your perl/PDL bindings (see examples/perl/README.perldemos) is a hack (for example, you have to overwrite certain system locations) and also inconvenient. For those reasons I have stopped building or testing those bindings, and I assume you have similar reasons for why you have quit testing your bindings. The current situation where your bindings are integrated right into perl/PDL is not ideal. What is really needed is for you to modify your perl/PDL bindings so they stand alone as a separate perl/PDL module that can be loaded (from any location) at perl/PDL run-time whenever a user needs to run PLplot from perl/PDL. That is effectively how PLplot is run from Python, Tcl, Octave, etc., and I hope that method is possible with perl/PDL as well. And it would be good to make the build of your bindings a lot smoother/less hackish as well, i.e., all a user needed to do would be to configure an install prefix, then run "make install" to build and install your bindings. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
