| Re: IDL 7 on LINUX Question [message #57045 is a reply to message #57040] |
Fri, 30 November 2007 21:48   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Doug Edmundson writes:
> I hope all this has made sense. We had many a debate among ourselves as
> to the best way to achieve that ease-of-use design goal. Ultimately we
> decided that the IDL Workbench should pretty much do what a user would
> likely do... add new directories to the path preference. Not good for
> everyone, hopefully good for most, and it can be disabled.
And it is likely to open up a whole new class of
IDL conundrums for the IDL newsgroup to chew on, too! ;-)
"How come my program fails if I open A, then B, but
if I open C, it fails with a completely different error?"
I recommend you send someone out to teach an IDL
class with different path configurations on each computer
before you come to a final conclusion on this question. :-)
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Cheers,
David
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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