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Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #80871]

Thu, 19 July 2012 08:45

stefan.meingast
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Registered: June 2012

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Well, there is a difference between "support" and "working", I do fine with IDL under OS X Lion, but I did not know they want to remove X11 from Mountain Lion, though. Apple moves to open source, thats at least a surprise!

Maybe someone already works with XQuartz and IDL and could clarify this problem...?

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Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #80872 is a reply to message #80871]

Thu, 19 July 2012 06:52

Vincent Sarago
Messages: 34
Registered: September 2011

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On Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:23:40 AM UTC-4, Stefan wrote:
> Hi
>
> With the upcoming release of Mountain Lion (presumably next week) I was wondering if I will have any troubles with my IDL 8.1 when I upgrade immediately. Has anyone tested it with the Golden Master or any Beta versions yet?
>
> thanks
> :)

Hi Stefan,

The first thing I see, will be the lost of X11 : http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/17/apple-removes-x11-in-os- x-mountain-lion-shifts-support-to-open-source-xquartz/

I don't know if IDL if compatible with xQuartz (the Open source 'X11')

I'm sure exelis-vis will answer your question saying that "the only supported version of IDL is Mac Os Leopard" :'(
Maybe one day they will consider that more and more scientists work under Mac

Vincent

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Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #80950 is a reply to message #80871]

Fri, 20 July 2012 08:03

karo03de
Messages: 21
Registered: March 2007

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Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 17:45:19 UTC+2 schrieb Stefan:
> Well, there is a difference between "support" and "working", I do fine with IDL under OS X Lion, but I did not know they want to remove X11 from Mountain Lion, though. Apple moves to open source, thats at least a surprise!
>
> Maybe someone already works with XQuartz and IDL and could clarify this problem...?

I am using IDL 8.2 with XQuartz since times, now on Lion. I have no problem, I see only the different icon. I am not quite sure about the cumbersome display variable,
echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-m6xh7k/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
if this is a result of XQuartz!? I am using it since Gimp (from GimponOSX) needs it.

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