[Pdl-general] PDL 2.020 released

[Ed . <ej...@ho...>]

Dear PDL folks,

I have just released PDL 2.020 onto CPAN. Major changes:

- PDL::PP and associated modules now put lots of #line directives into generated .xs files, so it’s possible to understand where in PDL::PP (etc) you’d need to look if something goes wrong
- malloc-ed things get zeroed to reduce random crashes on certain architectures
- various build and test fixes and improvements
- eliminate use of, and reference to, $a and $b in docs as this is very bad practice ($a and $b are magic variables used for sorting)
- Clean up PDL::Fit::Gaussian docs and tests - thanks @d-lamb
- badval fixes on systems with only unsigned chars - thanks @d-lamb
- fix segfault in some uses of PDL::Transform::map - thanks @d-lamb
- Improve compatibility with Perl's experimental 'bitwise' feature - thanks sp...@cp...
- RedoDims fix - thanks @drzowie
- range speedup - thanks @drzowie
- PDL::Lite fixes to bug that broke Test::PDL
- propagation of badflag with .= - thanks @hainest
- Only build PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT if PGPLOT installed
- better vsearch_* docs - thanks @zmughal
- PDL::Complex doc and code fixes, tests, and improvements - thanks @d-lamb

Additionally, PDL-2.020_01 has just been released with Derek’s big update to the pdldoc system. Please try it out, and report any problems!

Best regards,
Ed