Perl Data Language Files

v2.017 2016-10-08 13:50:39-04:00

General Notes:

 * This is version 2.017 of the Perl Data Language,

 * Bugs fixed:

    379   Passing qsort an extra argument causes a segfault
    393	  Tests may fail if perl is compiled with -Duselongdouble
    409	  PDL demos with PGPLOT display ignore $ENV{PGPLOT_DEV}
    413   PDL::Core::Dev::pdlpp_postamble() cannot handle .pd files in subdirectories
    419   t/#pdl_from_string.t fails on long double systems
    421	  PDL::IO::FITS can't handle 64-bit integers (longlong, indx)
    422	  PDL misc. compiler warnings.
    423	  wcols FORMAT option always incorrectly gives error
    424	  Calling PDL on a list of piddles fails to propogate bad values
    425	  svd is broken for everything but 2x2 matrices
    ---	  Typo in PDL::GSLSF::COUPLING routine gsl_sf_coupling_6j


 Highlights:

 * Several patches contributed from the Debian team have been applied
   that fix documentation spelling errors, make PDL builds more
   reproducible, and will make packaging PDL easier.

 * More helpful error message when multi-element PDL is used in
   a boolean expression (feature request #84)

 * Improve argument size handling and documentation for rle
   (feature request #80)

 * One can now use $pdlc = pdl($pdla,$pdlb) when $pdla and/or $pdlb
   have BAD values and the BAD values will propagate to
   $pdlc. Previously this would only work with a copy of a single
   piddle (e.g., $pdlc = pdl($pdla) ) or with 'cat'.

 * Many changes have been made to make PDL compile more cleanly and
   emit fewer compiler warnings.

 * Quiet printf format warning for sizeof()

 * Deprecate finite in favor of isfinite.

 * Many cleanups and additions to the test suite to use Test::More
   and to add meaningful test descriptions.

 * Added subtests to primitive.t
 
 * Add PDL::Doc::add_module to pdlpp_postamble