From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-04-28T12:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Cosmological distances with ruby

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, John Gabriele wrote:

> On 4/27/06, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm doubtful of any interest, but in the odd chance that someone else
>> might want to play, [snip]
>>
>> Attached is a small library that calculates comological distances
>> [snip]
>> It requires the ruby GSL bindings (http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org) for
>> numerical integration.
>
> Neat. Thanks for the link Cameron.
>
> It's interesting that there's two different Ruby bindings to GSL
> ("Ruby/GSL" and ruby-gsl). Any idea why that is? Sometimes when
> there's two projects like this, it turns out that one is more of a
> straight wrapper, while the other has been worked a little to have
> more of the flavor of the language wrapping it. Is that the case here?

if anyone is interested in playing with the gsl using the one-click-installer
a pre-compiled version, including narray, is here

   http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/rb-gsl-win/

just grab

   http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/rb-gsl-win/rb-gsl-1.7.0.tgz

unpack.  and run 'ruby install.rb'.

cheers.

-a
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