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Fri, 11 March 2011 09:34 |
Michael Galloy
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On 3/11/11 6:33 AM, Reimar Bauer wrote:
> I work currently on the next icg_lib release. This time I will switch
> our own version control system to a common one based on mercurial.
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> We have some dependencies to some routines from various libraries.
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> Because IDL is not python we don't have virtualenv and pip available.
> Also no setuptools or distutils and also no common pypi server for idl
> software packages.
Yes, this is a major problem. Currently, my own software dependencies
are to other projects of mine and handled by svn:externals, but it would
be much nicer to have a system which handles versions and dependencies.
It seemed like ITT VIS was starting to build this system into the
Workbench, but they removed the whole thing in IDL 8.0.
> For me the easiest solution for now is to track the few modules we need
> also by our version control system. I dislike this solution. But much
> more I would prefer I could add a dependency to an external packages.
> Which becomes installed on request.
Yes, this would be great.
> Do we have somewhere a public available mirror for all of our libs?
> Or at least one which can be used to query for needed libs?
Not that I know of. The closest we have ever had would be Eric Deutsch's
IDL Libraries Browser:
http://www.astro.washington.edu/docs/idl/htmlhelp/
But that hasn't been updated since 2000 and didn't automatically handle
dependencies, it just allowed searching through commonly used libraries.
> It is not so difficult to write a setup.pro which lets a user fetch all
> needed dependencies.
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> Any other ideas?
I would be up for helping on this.
Mike
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Research Mathematician
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