On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:38 AM, P Kishor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> > wrote: >> David Mertens wrote: >>> >>> I don't know if anybody has pointed this out before, but on Monday >>> night >>> I stumbled across Numeric::LL_Array. It seems to be a very new >>> project, >>> but in principle is very similar to PDL. >> >> Interesting. >> >>> I contacted the author and asked him how his package compared with >>> PDL; >>> he said he didn't know because he could never get PDL to install. >>> I got >>> the impression that he was turned off from PDL by the dependency >>> requirement and the footprint, and after the initial installation >>> attempt failed he started on his own project. He seems to be very >>> enthusiastic about it. >> >> I'd be interested if he still has problems with PDL. If you >> explicitly >> turn off all the PDL external dependencies then you should get >> something >> that builds quite well I would expect. .. > > Ilya Z, author of Numeric::LL_Array, is a long time Perl developer, a > rather brilliant one, and currently teaches/researches at the Cal Math > dept. I feel a bit vindicated in that I was not the only one > experiencing difficulty installing PDL. If Ilya felt it was difficult, > well, then, it must have been difficult. Either that, or he had some > other itch to scratch which caused him to develop his module instead > of sticking it out with PDL.
Ilya is also notoriously impatient... -- Tim Jenness Joint Astronomy Centre _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
