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Your description of PDL makes me want to avoid it (Score:2)
Every time someone says "No no no no, unlike the rest of CPAN, this one has to be installed by a human" I want to avoid those modules, because if that's the case how will I ever embed that thing in something larger, such that the person installing the larger thing doesn't need to know anything about how it works underneath.
Re:Your description of PDL makes me want to avoid (Score:1)
Ha! So I just read what you had to say about Chocolate Perl [perl.org]. So you are quite serious when you say you're thinking about including PDL in a bigger project...
As I said, it works out-of-the-box from CPAN. I've dropped a note on the Perldl mailing list about making the installer even smarter, but since a lot of optional PDL stuff depends on external libraries, it would be nice to have some way to interact with the OS and make it install its version of the desired library.
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