Re: [Plplot-devel] The recently released PDL version 2.4.6 appears to include a really old version of PDL::Graphics::PLplot

[Douglas H. <dh...@uc...>]

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.
>>
>> software@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.
>>
>> software@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
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