| Re: Any update on OS X [message #29759 is a reply to message #29758] |
Sun, 17 March 2002 08:44  |
K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000
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In article <a6sfoe$lhg$1@news.lth.se>,
Struan Gray <struan.gray@sljus.lu.se> wrote:
> Has anyone receieved any info on the proposed
> solution(s) for IDL on Mac OS X?
I recently submitted a bug report for IDL 5.5 running in Classic
mode under OS X. The reply included this
> Unfortunately, since we do not have an operable Mac OSX machine
> inhouse and do not plan to continue the support for
> Macs; I needed to research the bug on other OS systems ...
I hope this is just poor communication between support and development,
but I am very concerned. I just spent a lot of money based on their
press release of 2001-12-03, which said ...
> RSI plans to provide a special pre-release of IDL for Mac OS X
> to customers in Q1, 2002, and officially release the final version
> based on customer feedback from the pre-release.
The press release also said ...
> For the Macintosh OS X platform, RSI will be providing a native
> release using Tenon Intersystems' Xtools X-Windows server, giving
> customers the benefit of OS X's Unix core while providing a Motif
> interface similar to that provided on other Unix platforms.
I submitted a question to info@ResearchSystems.com inquiring
about whether the upcoming OS X version would work with other
X Windows servers (e.g. eXodus). So far (3 weeks later), I have received
no reply. Not even a "sorry, we don't know" or "sorry, we can't answer
that".
Since I need X Windows servers now, I expect that I will have to go ahead
and spend ~$600 for software that will either be redundant (if I
buy XTools) or unusable (if I buy eXodus) when (if) IDL for OS X ships.
Ken
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