| Re: release plans of idl [message #63184] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 21:31 |
jigga1206
Messages: 9
Registered: February 2008
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I rarely post here, but proactively follow the IDL community. I must
say I agree with David’s overall take on the IDL situation, as judged
from his current posts on the VM and the current release plans IDL 8.
I have recently been developing a commercial application with partners
in the EU, and let me tell you that this is a PAIN! Having them
download any IDL from outside the US has been difficult (the website
is a mess), the licensing has been obtuse at best, and support from
the sales department is…well lacking.
ITTVIS does a very poor job in general at explaining the differences
and pricing options of run-time licensing vs embedded etc. I wish
someone could explain it all to me. Not to mention, I wish IDL would
REALLY focus on cross-platform compatibility. Suffice to say, I hope
IDL 8.0 at least makes an attempt to address the issues so many of us
seem to have.
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| Re: release plans of idl [message #63209 is a reply to message #63184] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 06:07  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Reimar Bauer writes:
> What is planned for 8.0?
Why ruin your weekend, Reimar? ;-)
More bells and whistles, basically. Programming
via buttons that will duplicate, and mostly have the same
function as, the buttons already on your task bar. There
seems to be a concerted effort to fill the Workbench
interface up with enough junk to shrink the edit window
to the size of a postage stamp. The idea, I guess, is
that if you can't even *find* the edit window, you might
have no choice but to use iTools.
But this is probably just my cynical take on things.
You would be better off to consult the source. I think
the presentation ITTVIS made to the last User's Group
meeting is available on the ITTVIS web site.
I'm sorry to say, but I think the person who is
currently implementing the ITTVIS web page is the same
person in charge of future IDL development at ITTVIS.
At least the results feel similarly unusable to me.
Cheers,
David
P.S. Don't mind me. This has not been my very best week
with IDL. After spending two days trying to get a simple
top-level base widget to resize correctly on UNIX, and facing
more of the same this morning, I would be content if the
future direction of IDL just involved fixing some things
I actually use. :-(
--
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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