++ WARNING: There is absolutely no warranty for this software ++ ++ package. See the file COPYING for details. ++ Important reading Please check the following files for further information *BEFORE* sending us your questions: INSTALL Basic installation instructions INTERNATIONALIZATION Notes re PDL i18n issue and status DEPENDENCIES Other software that PDL relies on (and where to get it) Release_Notes A list of features or issues with regard to the current version, always worth checking! Known_problems Check before you report problems BUGS.pod How to make a bug report, PDL::Bugs perldl.conf PDL configuration options Basic/Pod/FAQ.pod The FAQ in pod format Try 'perldoc PDL::FAQ' after installation. Basic/Pod/QuickStart.pod A quick overview of PDL Try 'perldoc PDL::QuickStart' after installation. Basic/Pod/BadValues.pod A discussion of the bad value support in PDL DEVELOPMENT How to participate in the development of PDL *NOTE* Most PDL documentation is available online within the PDL shell, pdl2 (or perldl). Try the help command within either shell. PDL -- the package ------------------ The Perl Data Language (a.k.a. PerlDL or PDL) project aims to turn perl into an efficient numerical language for scientific computing. The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. e.g. $a=$b+$c can add two 2048x2048 images in only a fraction of a second. The aim is to provide tons of useful functionality for scientific and numeric analysis. Check the pdl web site at http://pdl.perl.org for more information. Installation ------------ Please read the file INSTALL for information on how to configure and install PDL. The Release_Notes and Known_problems files contain important version specific information. Be *sure* to read Known_problems if you have any INSTALL issues. Once you have built PDL and either installed it or done 'make doctest', try either perl -Mblib Perldl2/pdl2 from within the root of the PDL tree or just pdl2 if you have installed PDL already ('make install') to get the interactive PDL shell. In this shell, 'help' gives you access to PDL documentation for each function separately ('help help' for more about this) and 'demo' gives you some basic examples of what you can do. Bug Reports ----------- You can check the existing PDL bugs on GitHub at https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/issues The mailing list archives can be searched/read at http://pdl.perl.org/?page=mailing-lists Questions about problems and possible bugs can be discussed via the pdl-general mailing list. This is very useful if you are not sure what you have is a bug or not. For example, the list is the place to go for install problems. If you need to post a problem report, and after checking with the pdl-general list that it *is* a bug, please use the GitHub issue tracker system following the guidance in the BUGS file. Notes ----- Directory structure: Basic/ - The stuff that PDL would be no use without Demos/ - Showcase for PDL, type demo at the perldl prompt. Doc/ - Modules for building/using the PDL documentation database Example/ - Sample programs using PDL Graphics/ - The stuff that PDL needs to make pictures IO/ - The stuff that PDL needs to write and read strange files Lib/ - The stuff that PDL would still be useful without but which makes PDL even more useful Perldl2/ - The PDL shell version 2 source and development TestTools/ - Tools for testing PDL cygwin/ - Platform specific information debian/ - Platform specific information inc/ - Local module directory for PDL build process development macosx/ - Platform specific information t/ - PDL tests directory utils/ - Utilities relating to PDL win32/ - Platform specific information Comments are welcome - so are volunteers to write code and documentation! Please contact the developers mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (subscription info http://pdl.perl.org/?page=mailing-lists) with ideas and suggestions. The PDL developers. Compilation Reports: -------------------- The CPAN Testers' result page provides a database showing the results of compiling PDL and many other CPAN packages on multiple platforms. See http://testers.cpan.org/