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Re: Mac OSX [message #27001 is a reply to message #26995]

Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28

Ian Dean
Messages: 26
Registered: January 2000

Junior Member

Richard Adams wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Word here on the street is that despite early announcements of support
> for OSX there is now doubt that it will be supported. This must surely mean
> the end of IDL on the Macintosh. I for one - with a lab full of Macs and an
> admittedly small but growing number of IDL licences - think this is major
> bad news. The potential of an adult operating system (OSX/unix) and a great
> analysis environment (IDL) looked like a rosy future for our work. Am I the
> only one who thinks that dropping Mac support would be a bad move? If others
> feel the same then should we at least lobby for continued support for
> Macintosh computers?

Don't forget all the VMS users out here who have to stay with 5.4 or
move to another platform.
This is really upsetting for us, as we are about to start a new project
that would take advantage of a huge amount of IDL code from other
projects.

So we either continue with IDL 5.4 and reduce the development time (not
a popular option to use out of date software), or
we develop our software in some other language(as yet undefined) this
means re-inventing the wheel and will likely result in an overspend in
the development phase of the project (no popular either!!)

It also means that we have to live with the
bugs/shortcomings/undesirable features in 5.4. RSI have agreed that such
effects exist, but we have to live with them, because they will only be
fixed at the enct release which we will not be getting.

Sorry for the rant...
I'm not a happy bunny...

Regards,
Ian

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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