On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Puneet, > > I've compiled PDL 2.4.6 with PGPLOT built in. I've sent ti Chris Marshall > and it should appear in the next day or so, but if you are (brave!) enough > to try it, grab a copy at: > > http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~kenworthy/bin/SciKarlv2.4.6.dmg > > I'm also grinding through the PLplot problem you're having. If I managed to > get it built on my Mac and pulled into SciKarl, would that solve your > problem? >
Yes and no. If I am completely, singularly, absolutely unable to compile PLplot (and PGPLOT) myself, then yes, then I would turn to SciKarl (bless Karl for creating it). But, as much as I am struggling with this, for now I am committed to trying to build the darn thing myself. I have two motivations -- 1. If I can build it then I will understand it better, and unlike other prepackaged programs, I do have to understand PDL well in order to use it well. 2. If I can build it, then it means that building it is easy enough for other newbies to be able to build it as well. In my view, that will push PDL that one small step closer to being more usable by most normal scientists and not just programmer scientists. I have another, less scientific and less generous reason for PDL to succeed in general usage -- I am fairly sick of the bright-eyed users of Numpy and Scipy here on campus who talk excitedly about the wonderful things they can do with Python. I want to evangelize PDL use, particularly for remote sensing/GIS/image analysis kind of work (essentially replace IDL without having to use Scipy/Numpy). > Matt > > > > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
