Accidentally sent from the wrong account... Hi Alan-
I don't know the current status as far as PDL and the PDL::Graphics::PLplot bindings other than that it is the goal for the PDL-2.4.7 release to have the PLplot bindings as the standard, 2D plotting option available from PDL on all platforms (win32, mac os x, linux/unix and *bsd). Discussion and posts on this effort can be found on our mailing list archives at: http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/ http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail//pdl-porters/ The first problem has been to get a working PLplot to build on all the platforms of interest without special tweaking or expert intervention. The next step is to build PDL::Graphics::PLplot with that library. The final step is to automate the PLplot dependency finding/install/location so that PDL can use it automatically without manual intervention. I had also hoped to get an OpenGL driver for PLplot done for PDL-2.4.7 mentioned earlier on this list but I doubt I will have time to implement it. It is taking more time and effort to fix the automatic, portable install issues for PDL+PLplot than I had thought. I haven't even had time to go back and try the build configurations that have been reported to work for win32. Nor have I been able to try another PLplot build on cygwin. Cheers, Chris On 7/24/2010 2:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Doug: > > Here is the pdl and PDL::Graphics::PLplot version information available > on my system. > > softw...@raven> perl -e 'use PDL; print "$PDL::VERSION\n"' > 2.4.6 > > perl -MPDL::Graphics::PLplot -e \ > 'use PDL; print "$PDL::Graphics::PLplot::VERSION\n"' > > I believe that blank result indicates that the 2.4.6 version of PDL > (which was released on 2010-04-20) somehow included a really old > release of PDL::Graphics::PLplot. I am quite surprised by this result > since you have been updating PDL::Graphics::PLplot for several years > since that old version and modern PLplot really requires your latest > version of PDL::Graphics::PLplot to work properly. > > Just in case that blank result is not indicative of the > PDL::Graphics::PLplot version in PDL what command do you recommend for > reliably obtaining the PDL::Graphics::PLplot version? > > Here are my current pdl-related results for PLplot on Debian testing. > > softw...@raven> grep -i pdl cmake.out > -- PDL_VERSION = 2.4.6 > -- PDL version>= 2.4.1 and PDL::Graphics::PLplot found. > -- PDL_PLPLOT_VERSION = > -- WARNING: perl PDL PLplot version< 0.47 > Using limited set of Perl/PDL examples that work with this old > version > ENABLE_pdl: ON ENABLE_wxwidgets: ON > > perl > Missing examples : 02 14 14a 17 20 21 23 24 28 29 30 31 > Differing postscript output : 03 16 19 25 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > > The last was generated by the test_diff_psc target. Note, the above > cmake.out WARNING is because PDL_PLPLOT_VERSION (found with something > close to the above perl command) is blank, and that is why our build > system skipped (by design) so many examples in this comparison that > depend on the PDL::Graphics::PLplot version>= 0.47. > > It appears cpan.org is currently down, but once that is back up my > next step is to attempt to build your latest PDL::Graphics::PLplot > package and superimpose it on the system installation of PDL. If > there is some later version of your work that is not at cpan.org, let > me know where it is, and I would be happy to test it. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
