Hi all: I'll have to merge in all my changes to PDL::Graphics::PLplot into the main distribution. When is the target date for 2.4.7?
Regards, Doug Hunt On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, chm wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
