Arlindo da Silva wrote:
Hi,
I am new to PDL and have a couple of questions/comments to help
getting oriented. I have spent some time googling for some of these
questions
0) I am not an astronomer but rather an atmospheric scientist. My
applications would be along the lines of the "demo cartography".
1) The FAQ link on the nav bar of the home page http://perldl.perl.org is broken
It looks to be fixed now from http://pdl.perl.org
2) Is there a way to search this mailing list past 2004?
I don't know of an easy way but you could download all the monthly
summaries,
unzip them, then grep for strings...
3) Between Mac OS X and Linux/Mandriva ...
- Has similar concept been considered for PDL for providing *complete*
builds? The existence of such complete builds for numpy/matplotlib is
a real treat.
- Are there any licensing issues with the dependencies?
- Is there an autoconfiscated version of PGPLOT somewhere?
The idea of a *complete* PDL build is a nice one, I don't know where one
would
begin. Much of the PDL functionality takes advantage of 3rd party
libraries with
their own release schedules and licensing issues. Work is underway to
improve
the robustness and availability of PDL. I'm not sure what you mean by an
"autoconfiscated" version of PGPLOT.
4) Talking about SciKarl, is there a reason why RGB support was not
enabled in PGPLOT? All my background maps (MODS imagery, not vector
graphics) come out in gray scale.
I just checked the PGPLOT library site and the latest version available
is 5.2.2 which
does not have RGB support in it. Some web searches turned up refs to a
5.3.0
which, presumably, has RGB support but it has not been publicly
released. I think
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT does have support for the RGB mode if the underlying
library does.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks much for the feedback. As with all open source projects, clear
bug reports
and user questions/suggestions are essential for improvement to be made.
--Chris
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