[pm-h] [devel.chm.01 at gmail.com: [Perldl] CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz released to CPAN]

[B. Estrade]

In case anyone is interested. PDL is about as close as you get to Perl
for HPC and scientific computing.

Brett

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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:54:34 -0400
From: chm <devel.chm.01 at gmail.com>
To: "Perldl at jach.hawaii.edu" <Perldl at jach.hawaii.edu>
Subject: [Perldl] CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz released to CPAN

...and should be appearing at a CPAN Mirror near
you within 1-3 days.

Enjoy,
Chris

Release Notes for PDL 2.4.9_004 --------------------------

General Notes:

 * Another quick CPAN developers release

   - It is a snapshot of the current git development tree
     and everything may not work correctly or have complete
     documentation.

   - These release notes may not be fully complete.  Please
     see Changes (from the git log) for full details.

   - All tests may not pass, especially ones corresponding
     to issues in Known_problems.

   - Manual build/install is recommended although the
     cpan shell may be used by specifying the distribution
     path rather than just the module name, e.g.:

       cpan> get  CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz
       cpan> make CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz
       cpan> test CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz
       cpan> look CHM/PDL-2.4.9_004.tar.gz

Highlights:

 * Add 'use PDL::Constants' to default.perldl in preparation
   for eventual inclusion for 'use PDL'.  The PDL::Constants
   module only defines PI and E at the moment.  I would like
   to see a few more standard ones added such as I or J for
   the imaginary unit value.

 * Set $PDL::IO::FlexRaw::writeflexhdr=1 in PDL shell.  This
   enables writeflex() to call writeflexhdr() automatically
   when a filename is given as the output destination.  This
   matches the behavior of writefraw() but is different than
   the previous behavior so only enable the new default in
   the interactive shells (for now).

 * Preliminary support for pdls larger than 2GiB (but still
   with less than 2**31 *elements*) is in the PDL core.
   It is believed that this modification should be
   transparent.  Please test.

 * New whereND() routine added to PDL::Primitive.  Like
   where but it properly threads the mask over higher
   data dimensions.  This was sf.net feature #3390043.

 * pdldoc now searches for *.pdl files in your @PDLLIB
   path for docs on PDL::AutoLoader routines.  To disable
   the new behavior, just set the new perldl.conf option
   PDLDOC_IGNORE_AUTOLOADER to true.  This was sf.net
   feature #3390042.

 * Documentation fixes

 * SF.net bugs fixed:
   - 3388862  tiny bug in PDL-2.4.3. May apply to 2.4.9
   - 3375837  _read_flexhdr state machine fails
   - 3368883  t/opengl.t fails if display type not available


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