| Re: ARG! Direct Color problem IDL 5.5/Linux (decomposed doesn't help) [message #29181 is a reply to message #29180] |
Thu, 07 February 2002 09:33   |
Robert Stockwell
Messages: 74
Registered: October 2001
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David Fanning wrote:
> Robert Stockwell (rgs1967@hotmail.com) writes:
>> PS anyone else amazed that RSI let this broken "24bit color on linux"
>> out the door. OOPS! I think we should chip in and by them a linux
>> computer that they can at least run the new releases before they ship!
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> There is always huge pressure around a software release to
> either (1) meet the ship date, or (2) fix the software.
Tell me about it :)
I often do programming as an independent contractor and
there has never been a case where the client
has allocated enough time to "properly" finish a project.
There is always a decision to be made on what features and
functionality will be dropped from the final version.
But broken linux/color seems to be a rather large bug to slip by.
I'm not much a a linux user, but it seems that 24 bit color
in linux would be quite common.
> Fixing the software is never finished, so eventually
> you just say "What the hell, enough is enough" and
> ship the software. It's like writing a book in that
> respect, which is why editor's impose deadlines
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> But shipping with broken color and no help files is
> making the decision at the completely wrong end of
> the continuum, in my opinion. I'd have been much more
> content to wait another couple weeks or even a month
> for a more complete product. I feel embarrassed for
> them, and I don't even work there.
I agree. I was embarrasses when I helped a colleague convert
some simple matlab code to IDL. He read in some data, and
created an image overlayed on a map, and the results were
terrible (due to the crazy colors). He interpreted it as
an error in reading the data, when in fact I had to inform
him that it was merely broken IDL. I don't think we won
over a user from Matlab.
(Especially since I had in the past (jokingly) chided him
for using a toy scripting language like matlab, when real
scientists used the awesome programming power of objects
and pointers with IDL. lol )
But I suppose RSI is telling us that color is only for
the style-over-substance crowd.
Cheers,
bob stockwell
aka bobby greyscale
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