On 7/24/2010 8:07 PM, Douglas Hunt wrote: > > 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?
I had hoped for the end of August but it is taking longer to get the cross-platform issues resolved for win32 (and others) than I had thought. As far as PLplot with PDL, I believe sisyphus/Rob has been able to build PLplot on win32 and then PDL::Graphics::PLplot with that. The next step is to get Alien::PLplot to wrap the PLplot dependency for perl. After that, we need to confirm that the latest PDL::Graphics::PLplot works. Sorry for the operational definition of a schedule here but I had hoped that some of the issues would be solved by other contributors while I was working some of the PDL shell version 2 issues and other details which would shorten the timeline. As is, I'm coordinating and doing more than I had thought I would need to and that takes longer.... If PLplot were working on win32 and with PDL I would say we could have a preliminary PDL-2.4.7 pre-release almost immediately. Lots of the TODO items in http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail//pdl-porters/2010-July/003510.html are nice-to-haves and most of the rest are docs and web site improvements. All important but the PLplot remains the long pole in the test for this release. Cheers, Chris > Regards, > > Doug Hunt > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, chm wrote: >> >> 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. 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