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Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... [message #75551 is a reply to message #75549]

Thu, 17 March 2011 10:39

pgrigis
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On Mar 17, 12:44 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>> Several things can help. First, better communication!
>> (And, by the way, Wayne Landsman is terrific to work with.)
>> I don't mind people fixing bugs and adding features to my
>> programs, but please let me know about it. I'm all for
>> writing better programs!
>
> And if you DO make changes to someone else's library
> programs and choose not to tell them about it, at least
> give the programs a different name. Otherwise chaos will
> reign supreme. :-(

Right - and solarsoft is quite guilty of that due to the
fact that there are a large number of contributors that
are not necessarily aware of each other's work - so
sometimes I have encountered inconsistencies even
between different branches of solarsoft (though
that wasn't very often).

As a lesson learned, everyone should write all their future
software with a 2- (or better 3-) letter unique identifier
in the program names - especially when they edit existing
routines and change them.

For the future, maybe some better namespace management tools
should be added to IDL...

Ciao,
Paolo

>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: penteado on Thu, 17 March 2011 13:30
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: penteado on Thu, 17 March 2011 13:26
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 12:42
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: George Millward on Thu, 17 March 2011 12:26
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: pgrigis on Thu, 17 March 2011 10:39
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 09:44
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 09:40

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