Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL?

2019-04-12 Thread Luis Mochan
Hi Ed, On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:29:07AM +, Ed . wrote: > Dear PDL Developers, > > It’s been nearly a year since the last release of PDL. Currently the > PDL::Lite module does not do what is its entire point, which is to export a > small set of functions that are supposed to work. The PR t

Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL?

2019-04-12 Thread Ed .
Hi Luis, Good to hear there's at least one list participant, and at least one user :-) PDLA - the "A" stands for "Agile". The concept was to unwedge the development of PDL, by moving it to a place where the core was separated from the many, many awesome extras that have become part of the dist

Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL?

2019-04-12 Thread Ed .
Hi Luis, I’m really glad this subject came up. A lot of this discussion is the first time I’ve articulated some of these things (as opposed to just being ideas), and it’s increasingly clear that it will be highly useful to include an “explanation” as well as the tips in the PDLA top-level doc

Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL?

2019-04-12 Thread Karl Glazebrook via pdl-devel
Thanks Ed for restarting this conversation. Your fix-lite patch seems good to me. > Do people still use PDL? - Yes I do, I have a number of scripts and stuff for my research. These days I do also use python (about half my coding probably) as my collaborators and students all mostly use it (it

Re: [Pdl-devel] Whither PDL?

2019-04-12 Thread Terry Gaetz
I have been using PDL for more than a decade (or is it two?). Generally, mere users don't pipe up on pdl-devel... I make extensive use of the PDL affine transformations and PDL threading. I'd like to work with PP, but it has been too intimidating so far, so if PDLA provides a gentler entry, that