The latest version in debian stable is 2.017 with 2.018 in the pipeline
once it graduates from testing. It used to be much worse with the
oldstable version of debian being 2.007! We're back on track with debian
packages and pdl is now supported by the debian perl group.
--Chris
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Karl Glazebrook <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I believe the latest version in ‘stable' is ancient, how do we fix that?
>
> Karl
>
> On 23 Aug 2017, at 1:45 am, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Debian is up to the latest PDL release available in sid and buster
> (testing and unstable) and if you install the build tools and dependencies
> it should be a smooth build out of the box from CPAN from then on.
>
> I took a look at the http://pdl.perl.org page and noticed that the docs
> for getting PDL for linux are now a bit out of date. If you get things
> going on debian/ubuntu, I would appreciate feedback to update our site.
>
> Thanks and good luck,
> Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:23 AM, SwRI <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Debian has a more active support community…
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 7:17 AM, J DR <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Folks, wold you have any recommendation about a Linux distro & version to
>> use with PDL?
>>
>>
>> I setup a vm runnig openSUSE Tumbleweed and run into too much trouble to
>> get a fully funtional PDL dev env.
>>
>> - old requirements
>>
>> - broken packages
>>
>> - failed tests
>>
>> - tons of compiler warnings and some errors
>>
>> - don't even dream about using Padre (wxWidgets+Scintilla)
>>
>>
>> The path of less action should be something like:
>>
>> - <whateverpackagemanager> install perl5
>>
>> - $ cpan install PDL
>>
>> - $ perldl
>>
>> - demo, demo 3d ...
>>
>> - have fun
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Jose.
>>
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