[Pdl-general] PDL 2,017 released to CPAN

[Chris M. <dev...@gm...>]

To PDL Users and Developers-

Announcing the release of PDL 2.017 to CPAN!  This is a new,
stable release in the PDL-2.x series.  It features many bugs
fixed, improvements to the test suite and the build process.

Special thanks go to Derek Lamb and Zakariyya Mughal for their
tireless efforts which made this release happen!  Additional
thanks go to Bas Couwenberg, Craig DeForest, Reiner Herrmann,
Henning Glawe, William Parker, and Ed J.

In addition to the internal PDL code work, this release
includes new contributions to update the PDL Debian releases
to our current version.  PDL-2.016 has already made it into
Debian Unstable and Debian Testing.  With this release, I
expect we'll see PDL-2.017 as the default PDL package from
the Debian perl maintainers.

Happy PDL-ing!
Chris Marshall for the PDL Developerment Team

 > v2.017 2016-10-08 13:50:39-04:00
 >
 > General Notes:
 >
 >  * This is version 2.017 of the Perl Data Language,
 >
 >  * Bugs fixed:
 >
 >     379   Passing qsort an extra argument causes a segfault
 >     393         Tests may fail if perl is compiled with -Duselongdouble
 >     409         PDL demos with PGPLOT display ignore $ENV{PGPLOT_DEV}
 >     413   PDL::Core::Dev::pdlpp_postamble() cannot handle .pd files 
in subdirectories
 >     419   t/#pdl_from_string.t fails on long double systems
 >     421         PDL::IO::FITS can't handle 64-bit integers (longlong, 
indx)
 >     422         PDL misc. compiler warnings.
 >     423         wcols FORMAT option always incorrectly gives error
 >     424         Calling PDL on a list of piddles fails to propogate 
bad values
 >     425         svd is broken for everything but 2x2 matrices
 >     ---         Typo in PDL::GSLSF::COUPLING routine gsl_sf_coupling_6j
 >
 >
 >  Highlights:
 >
 >  * Several patches contributed from the Debian team have been applied
 >    that fix documentation spelling errors, make PDL builds more
 >    reproducible, and will make packaging PDL easier.
 >
 >  * More helpful error message when multi-element PDL is used in
 >    a boolean expression (feature request #84)
 >
 >  * Improve argument size handling and documentation for rle
 >    (feature request #80)
 >
 >  * One can now use $pdlc = pdl($pdla,$pdlb) when $pdla and/or $pdlb
 >    have BAD values and the BAD values will propagate to
 >    $pdlc. Previously this would only work with a copy of a single
 >    piddle (e.g., $pdlc = pdl($pdla) ) or with 'cat'.
 >
 >  * Many changes have been made to make PDL compile more cleanly and
 >    emit fewer compiler warnings.
 >
 >  * Quiet printf format warning for sizeof()
 >
 >  * Deprecate finite in favor of isfinite.
 >
 >  * Many cleanups and additions to the test suite to use Test::More
 >    and to add meaningful test descriptions.
 >
 >  * Added subtests to primitive.t
 >
 >  * Add PDL::Doc::add_module to pdlpp_postamble