hi Ed, On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 6:31 PM Ed . <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear pdl-general list, (had to send again, after subscribing - whoops) > > Luis has quite correctly reminded me of this list. I have very recently > revived the question of "whither PDL", and am very interested to get the > thoughts of the wider community. The relevant posting is: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/mailman/message/36638395/ - some explanation > of detail on this crazy "PDLA" thing > > (I've checked, and PDLA does in fact still call its executable "pdl" - as > I've said on the thread, that's a bug and I will fix it) > > Basically, the question is: do you, dear scientist/PDL user, still use PDL? > yes, whenever I can (which is admittedly less often than I'd like). > Would the increased reproducibility that is easily within reach add value? > in the mid- to long-run, almost certainly yes. I typically use the distro's PDL, which can get messy on older machines. A finer-grained, more modular distribution such as PDLA seems to be moving towards would likely make it less painful to keep the PDL dependencies up-to-date even on elderly distros. > (I emphasise reproducibility because a quick scan of the -general list > showed people wanting to patch PDL "proper", which means anyone trying to > reproduce their results would need to also use the patched version, which > is > a disaster in my opinion) > Agreed. I think there's also an argument for modular distribution from the conventional DevOps wisdom pushing for "self-contained (micro)services" (e.g. as docker containers) -- finer-grained dependencies allow smaller images and consume fewer resources on the host... but that mostly affects just disk space, and in my PDL usage at least is negligible compared to the disk space requirements for observation & model data. marmosets, Bryan > > Best regards, > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luis Mochan > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2019 4:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL? > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 12:45:54AM -0400, Terry Gaetz wrote: > > I have been using PDL for more than a decade (or is it two?). Generally, > > mere users don't pipe up on pdl-devel... > > Maybe more PDL users may be found on pdl-general > > -- > > o > W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) > Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ > Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ > Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | [email protected] /\_/\__/ > GPG: 791EB9EB, C949 3F81 6D9B 1191 9A16 C2DF 5F0A C52B 791E B9EB > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pdl-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > pdl-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-general > -- Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more bug." [email protected] -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology
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