| Re: V7.0.6 release notes [message #65357 is a reply to message #65280] |
Thu, 26 February 2009 06:56   |
Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997
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Reimar,
that's what I read out of that. However, I am not an expert on the subject.
Haje
"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
news:go5kpp$7ops$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
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> Haje Korth schrieb:
>> David,
>> That's what my wife tells me all the time. :-) So...I am trying... but
>> life
>> is giving me a hard time with that...
>>
>> So, I installed 7.0.6 in VMware and after the install you get the read me
>> with the following information: "If you have an earlier version of IDL
>> 7.0,
>> ITT Visual Information Solutions recommends that you do not upgrade to
>> IDL
>> 7.0.6." Isn't that nice....
>>
>> v7.0.6. seems to be like some reduced functionality mode. The warning
>> reads:
>> "Support for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) communication and other strong
>> data
>> encryption technologies has been removed from IDL 7.0.6. This change
>> means
>> that the IDLnetURL, IDLnetOGCWCS, and IDLnetOGCWMS objects can not use
>> SSL
>> encryption in IDL 7.06. Support for the MrSID file format has also been
>> removed. Existing IDL programs that rely on SSL encryption or MrSID
>> functionality will not work with IDL 7.0.6." Sounds like some licensing
>> and/or ITAR problem to me that had to be fixed.
>>
>> So, I guess it wasn't worth the download.
>>
>> Yours semi-relaxed,
>> Haje
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> Dear Haje
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> that means now that the users which don't upgrade makes the (copyright)
> violation if they share programs based on those files.
>
> Does this also mean that we can't communicate with ssl servers since
> 7.0.6?
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> cheers
> Reimar
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>> "David Fanning" <news@dfanning.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.240f383e4a7f99e99897b0@news.giganews.com...
>>> Haje Korth writes:
>>>
>>>> not so. I downloaded this morning versions for use with windows, mac,
>>>> and
>>>> linux.However, there was no link to the release notes. I want to read
>>>> them
>>>> before I install and not after the installer has done its job and
>>>> placed
>>>> the
>>>> file somewhere.
>>> Haje, you need to loosen up! Live adventurously. Life
>>> is a mystery. Enjoy it. :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
>>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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