Bug #79693 for PDL-IO-NDF: required module NDF can't be found

Mon Sep 17 11:52:19 2012 duvny [...] yopmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:

required module NDF can't be found

I installed PDL recently, then after running my weekly cron job "cpan-outdated | cpanm" it encountered error after it tried upgrading PDL::IO::NDF: ! Couldn't find module or a distribution NDF ! Bailing out the installation for PDL-IO-NDF-1.04. Retry with --prompt or --force.

Mon Sep 17 17:35:01 2012 TJENNESS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

PDL::IO::NDF was recently extracted from PDL and updated. Since it's standalone it assumes that the NDF perl module is going to be available and so tries to install it. When the module was part of PDL we could not assume that NDF was available so the tests were only run if it was found. The next PDL release will not have PDL::IO::NDF installed but I hadn't really worked out what would happen if someone tried to update the module independently without the supporting library. I'm not sure I'll be able to have time in the near future to update the module to install without running any tests (and installing without running tests worries me a bit). In the short term can you just delete PDL/IO/NDF.pm from your install tree? I very much doubt anyone will be using it unless they already have the Starlink software installed. Next time PDL is updated it won't be installed again.

Mon Sep 17 17:35:01 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Dec 11 10:16:23 2012 parlay [...] yopmail.com - Correspondence added

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parlay [...] yopmail.com

On Mon Sep 17 17:35:01 2012, TJENNESS wrote: Show quoted text

> In the short term can you just delete PDL/IO/NDF.pm from your install > tree? I very much doubt > anyone will be using it unless they already have the Starlink software > installed. Next time PDL is > updated it won't be installed again.

Ran into the same problem. I admin too many machines to make this a viable option, so I worked around this bug by rewriting our code to avoid using PDL.

Sat Dec 15 08:39:25 2012 chm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Dec 11 10:16:23 2012, parlay wrote:
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> On Mon Sep 17 17:35:01 2012, TJENNESS wrote:

> > In the short term can you just delete PDL/IO/NDF.pm from your install
> > tree? I very much doubt
> > anyone will be using it unless they already have the Starlink software
> > installed. Next time PDL is
> > updated it won't be installed again.

>
> Ran into the same problem. I admin too many machines to make this a
> viable option, so I worked around this bug by rewriting our code to
> avoid using PDL.

Ick!

@Tim: is there a way we could put a stub in the
PDL distribution as a placeholder to fix this?