Hey, Karl,
Website updating is easy if somewhat tedious. Check out the WWW tree
from the CVS server, then follow the directions in the README file.
The pages are in WML, a sort of meta-HTML that gets compiled with the
"wml" compiler (which you may have to get -- but it's still kicking
around, if a bit dusty at this point). The makefiles are all set up
already, so if you have wml installed you just say "make dist" on
your machine -- then scp the resulting tarball up to the
shell.sourceforge.org server and unpack it there.
For me the biggest hassle is remembering to try to translate
everything into Spanish and German, so that all three languages
remain synchronized.
Cheers,
Craig
On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
I don't mind how we do it but I would like to see a basic how-to
for PDL on Windows (hopefully including pgplot) on the web site.
Perhaps Rob could do it?
A point and click installer is nice, but a howto is OK as long as
the steps work.
In return I would volunteer to do the Mac install guide if someone
reminds me how to update the web site!
- Karl
On Aug 23, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:
I would vote that we let the default activestate PPM
build pick up PDL if possible. With 2.4.3 it can build
out of the box so the PPM build should succeed. I
don't know if we have to request an attempt or if the
update to CPAN is enough to trigger the process.
For post-2.4.3 development, I would like to see improved
installation and documentation for PDL.
As it is, the amount of work to get started prevents
beginners from getting into PDL easily---for example
lots of folks might be interested in PDL as an open
alternative to matlab or octave but you have to know
alot about building and installing perl and perl modules
to get started.
MAILING LIST NOTE:
I have been copying perldl and pdl-porters throughout
the 2.4.3 release process in order to get the widest
dissemination and feedback as quickly as possible. The
result was more technical PDL discussion ended up on
perldl and lots of dups between the two lists.
Now that 2.4.3 is out the door, I plan to keep technical
discussions to pdl-porters with announcements and
general user issues (e.g. 2.4.3 stuff) on perldl.
Cheers,
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