It appears the problems with the PAUSE indexer are not preventing 
PDL-2.008 being available.
We're working on cleaning up these issues and will release a PDL-2.009 soon.
Testing and feedback on PDL-2.008 is welcome!

--Chris

On 5/24/2015 19:46, Chris Marshall wrote:
> There appears to be a problem with the PAUSE indexer.
> Will advise when we get it resolved.
>
> Thanks for you patience,
> Chris
>
> On 5/24/2015 19:24, Chris Marshall wrote:
>> ...and should be appearing at a CPAN mirror near you soon.
>>
>> PDL-2.008 is the culmination of over 18 months effort by the PDL 
>> developers.
>> There are many changes both user visible and internal (over 50 
>> outstanding bug
>> tickets closed on sf.net alone!).
>>
>> Also, please welcome Ed J and Zakariya Mughal our two newest members
>> of the PDL development team.  Together with Craig DeForest they are 
>> responsible
>> for global cleanup and refactoring of the PDL distribution from the core
>> computation code through to the build process and the test suites.  This
>> effort has continued to improve the robustness and usability of PDL.
>>
>> I would like to thank all the contributors to PDL-2.008 whose git 
>> commits have
>> make this release possible:
>>
>>     136 Ed J
>>      93 Chris Marshall
>>      69 Zakariyya Mughal
>>      40 Craig DeForest
>>      28 Derek Lamb
>>      24 sisyphus
>>      20 kmx
>>      13 Dima Kogan
>>      12 Diab Jerius
>>       2 Petr PísaÅ
>>       1 David Mertens
>>
>> Enjoy and Happy PDL-ing!
>> Chris and the PDL Development Team
>>
>> Release Notes for PDL 2.008 -----------------------------
>>
>>  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
>>  | BE WARNED:  This release includes an update to the internal, |
>>  | C-level PDL API for PDL versions 2.007 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:
>>
>>  * This is PDL-2.008!  Yay!
>>
>>  * perl 5.10.x is now the minimum version of perl
>>    supported by PDL-2.008 and later.
>>
>>  * 50 sf.net bug tickets closed/fixed since PDL-2.007!
>>
>>  * Partial 64bit indexing support with some fixes to
>>    remaining issues.  Full 64bit support for perl modulus
>>    operator ('%') is in progress.
>>
>>  * Major clean up and rework of the core PDL computation
>>    code, the build process, test suites, and updating to
>>    reflect more of the best practices for perl module
>>    development.
>>
>>  * The PDL development has moved to github and now has
>>    added continuous commit testing via the Travis-CI
>>    framework.  The git workflow is now inline with
>>    current practices and it is expected that this will
>>    allow more contributions and "eyes on the code".
>>
>> Highlights:
>>
>>  * PDL::FFTW is no longer part of the PDL Core.
>>    Please use PDL::FFTW3 from CPAN (Dima Kogan)
>>    with Alien::FFTW3 support (Craig DeForest)
>>
>>  * New improved vsearch functionality, interfaces,
>>    and documentation (Diab Jerius)
>>
>>  * PDL::IO::Storable now robust against version, platform
>>    endianness, and supports the new 64bit PDL_Indx data
>>    type (Dima Kogan)
>>
>>  * Clean up of PDL/Basic/Core code to remove cruft and
>>    to simplify the evolution to a coming improvements
>>    (Craig DeForest)
>>
>>  * Major clean up, de-crufting, and streamlining of the
>>    entire PDL ExtUtils::MakeMaker build process (Ed J)
>>
>>  * Standardizing and updating the entire PDL test suite
>>    to a common basis (use Test::More) and coding to more
>>    consistent best practices.  E.g., use strict
>>    This is a huge (ongoing) effort but a comprehensive
>>    test suite is needed for regression tests to validate
>>    compatibility of coming PDL3 architecture changes.
>>    (Zakariyya Mughal)
>>
>>  * You can now call the PDL::Graphics2D twiddle()
>>    routine with an argument of 0 or 1 (i.e., false
>>    or true) to set whether the twiddle loop is run.
>>
>>  * Library dependency detection improvements including
>>    PROJ4 and GD.  A number of improvements in this for
>>    strawberry perl on windows (kmx)
>>
>>  * The PDL distribution process now generated the
>>    documentation for the modules using the automated
>>    code generation process.  This makes all the PDL
>>    docs available on http://search.cpan.org and on
>>    http://metacpan.org for your web browser. (kmx)
>>
>>  * Improved support to build XS/C extensions: (Ed J)
>>    - You can now: "use Inline with => 'PDL';", see PDL::API
>>    - You can, in your module's Makefile.PL:
>>      "$p = new ExtUtils::Depends 'MyMod', 'PDL'"
>>
>>  * MANY sf.net tickets closed:
>>
>>    377   PDL::Transform::Proj4 not building under latest dev EUMM
>>    375   Storable files incorrectly processed from older versions.
>>    374   CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => Devel::CheckLib
>>    373   2.007_11 MANIFEST
>>    372   2.007_11 fails on MS Windows 64bit
>>    371   PDL-2.4.11 medover failure in perl 5.20.1
>>    370   PDL-2.007 can fail to build Basic/#Core files
>>    369   slice fails with subclass index
>>    368   PDL::Slatec::polyfit ignores incorrect length of weight 
>> piddle...
>>    367   BAD value parsing breakage
>>    365   CPAN PDL install broken due to breakage in Module::Compile 0.34
>>    363   PP "OtherPars" namespace is not clean
>>    362   rcols COLIDS need chomp-ing
>>    361   vsearch bug w/# reversed list
>>    360   subtle & rare bug in vsearch
>>    359   Improved documentation for vsearch
>>    358   one2nd() has unexpected behaviour when given a Perl scalar 
>> rather than a piddle
>>    357   Android support
>>    356   overload::Method() does not return coderef for stringification
>>    355   dog creates 0 dim piddle which squeezes to 1 dim.
>>    353   imag2d not 'use warnings' safe and no way to disable twiddle
>>    352   reorder() not an lvalue sub
>>    351   PDL_BOOT has wrong XS code
>>    350   Modules using PDL::Slatec will get installed even if Slatec 
>> is disabled
>>    349   PDL needs integrated support for PDL::PP and CPAN indexer
>>    348   PDL->null->slice('')->nelem results in error
>>    345   documentation of WITH_PLPLOT in perldl.conf incorrect
>>    344   Current version numbering is broken
>>    342   BUGS file not indexable or discoverable
>>    337   rangeb() broken for 64bit index support on 32bit perl
>>    332   "isn't numeric in null operation" warning could be more helpful
>>    331   uniq does not always return proper object
>>    329   t/#picrgb.t fails in PDL build
>>    321   Several core modules do not have man pages
>>    319   PDL::Index does not render on websites
>>    316   plplot.t failure when building 2.4.11
>>    314   conv1d bad value broken
>>    313   clip() edge case not handled right
>>    312   Wrong results in corner empty-set cases
>>    283   PDL::IO::FITS::wfits corrupting FITS image
>>    272   indexND of Empty pdls can segfault
>>    268   PLplot still unusable with X
>>    261   max() fails on nan
>>    256   Threadable version of PDL::MatrixOps::inv
>>    232   perl -d chokes on lvalue functions
>>    227   PGPLOT module doesn't work in PDL
>>    224   Ctrl-C kills perldl in win32 console
>>    207   Name "PDL::SHARE" used only once.
>>     63   Unable to get the 3d demos
>>     51   justify option fails in imag (PDL2.3.4)
>>
>>
>>
>


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