[oak perl] Request for testers of my module Chart::Scientific

[Belden Lyman]

Not a comment upon Chart::Scientific - installing pgplot from
source is tricky. Am I alone in wanting this to install as simply
as this?

   edit drivers.list
   ./configure
   make
   make test
   make install

My specific bone is the missing 'make install' directive. The
pgplot install-unix.txt got me up through building the code, but
now I've got no clue where to put the .so, .a, and .h files.

Ho hum. Hopefully I'll get my installation issues worked out
before I lose interest in your module, Kester.

Belden, likes programs that draw

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:01, Kester Allen wrote:
> Hi All--
> 
> As I mentioned at the meeting this week, I've written a data-plotting
> module called Chart::Scientific.  It's pretty easy to use (I think),
> and I'd like to beseech the list to try installing it, run through a
> few of the examples in the POD documentation, and get back to me.
> 
> I'd be particularly interested in reports of any installation problems
> you had (you'll need the pgplot5 library installed, Debian-derived
> linux users can get this library in a prepackaged .deb at
> http://packages.debian.org/pgplot5.  Other linux users can get it at
> the PGPLOT homepage http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/#support.
>  Truly ambitious Windows users can attempt to install the library from
> the instructions posted at
> http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/#support), and any features
> you think would improve the module.
> 
> Since it's on cpan, you can just type: "cpan PGPLOT", then "cpan
> Chart::Scientific" (this is a bug, in the next version, the PGPLPOT.pm
> perl module will be installed automatically) at a command prompt, and
> it should install it.
> 
> A simple script like:
>     use Chart::Scientific;
> 
>     my @height = ( 1.81, 1.62, 1.33, 1.90, 1.73 );
>     my @weight = ( 77.3, 60.1, 52.3, 85.2, 80.1 );
> 
>     my $plt = Chart::Scientific->new (
>                   x_data => \@height,
>                   y_data => [ \@weight  ],
>               );
>     $plt->plot ();
> 
> will give you a plot; adding "device => 'myplot.ps/cps'" to the
> constructor call will give you a postscript file named myplot.ps.
> 
> Anyhow, please give Chart::Scientific a look if you have a minute, and
> please let me know how it went!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kester
> _______________________________________________
> Oakland mailing list
> Oakland at mail.pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland