Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Ed .
Hi Karl, GitHub Actions are all explained in the link I gave in my previous message  (spoiler: it’s a classic example of cloud computing) By “more modern” I’m referring to one of the many other possibilities like PLplot, Gnuplot, Prima – of the ones that already have PDL support (and that

Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook via pdl-general
Right. I took a look at that yml file and I can sort of see what is going on. On what machine is that CI stuff being run? Re FreeBSD. Are there many users? I have no idea how ports files would work on that distribution, I haven’t even learned how to do this on Macports or Homebrew (though I

Re: [Pdl-general] [Pdl-devel] PDL 2.026 released to CPAN

2021-02-15 Thread Luis Mochan
Just intalled PDL 2-026 using perlbrew/cpanm under perl 5.32.1. Haven't tested it yet, but it didn't complain. Regards, Luis -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias

Re: [Pdl-general] [Pdl-devel] PDL 2.026 released to CPAN

2021-02-15 Thread Luis Mochan
Thanks for the announcement and for all the work! Luis On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 04:01:05PM -0700, Derek Lamb wrote: > Dear PDL users, > > Ed recently released PDL 2.026 to CPAN. (https://metacpan.org/release/PDL) > > There are several notable changes since the last announcement to this email >

Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Ed .
Whatever is specified in any “.github/workflows/*.yml”! https://docs.github.com/en/actions By the way, I think I’m about to make PGPLOT work somewhat better on FreeBSD in the imminent next version. The FreeBSD port says it’s not got a maintainer, and they’re asking for volunteers. Karl, if

Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook via pdl-general
OK . … in this case what ‘action’ is actually run? > On 16 Feb 2021, at 12:25 pm, Ed . wrote: > > CI is “continuous integration”, run every time a commit is pushed to the > server (or a pull request is created or updated) to give instant feedback on > problems. GitHub Actions is the new-ish

Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Ed .
CI is “continuous integration”, run every time a commit is pushed to the server (or a pull request is created or updated) to give instant feedback on problems. GitHub Actions is the new-ish service provided by GitHub for this. It’s much better than Travis now is, given Travis are deliberately

Re: [Pdl-general] pgplot instructions for Big Sur macOS

2021-02-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook via pdl-general
Hi Ed Sorry for the dumb question - can you explain what ' GitHub Action CI’ is? Do I need to know about it? Karl > On 15 Feb 2021, at 4:26 pm, Ed . wrote: > > I’ve updated the CPAN PGPLOT somewhat, including adding GitHub Action CI. I > tried to make it also test on MacOS by using your

[Pdl-general] PDL 2.026 released to CPAN

2021-02-15 Thread Derek Lamb
Dear PDL users, Ed recently released PDL 2.026 to CPAN. (https://metacpan.org/release/PDL) There are several notable changes since the last announcement to this email list, of PDL 2.020 on 2019-12-11. Thanks go to @mohawk2 (Ed), @wmlb (Luis Mochán), @newville (Matt Newville), and @sebastic