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Re: Mac OSX [message #27089 is a reply to message #27034]

Wed, 10 October 2001 05:56

Richard Adams
Messages: 9
Registered: January 2000

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Randall,

Matthew Powell's letter to the newsgroup yesterday was very clear.
Version 5.5 of IDL will be the last to run on Macs and it will be limited to
Systems 8.6/9.x. Unclear if it will run under Classic mode in OSX. From
that point on IDL is a dead language on Macs.

Richard.

> From: Randall Skelton <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk>
> Organization: Oxford University, England
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:24:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: Mac OSX
>
> The RSI page (http://www.rsinc.com/idl/whatsnew.cfm) is not particularly
> clear on what operating systems will be supported or perhaps I have just
> misinterpreted the newsgroup comments to mean that 'IDL for the Mac is
> dead.'
>
> For example, the image: http://www.rsinc.com/img/idl/PlatformTable.jpg
> suggests that IDL 5.5 will be available for OS 8.6,9.x. Can anyone
> confirm that this is the case?
>
> Also, under the heading of 'Plans for Future Platform Support' MacOS 8.6,
> 9.x remain listed. This seems rather odd given Apple's rapid migration to
> OS X.
>
> There appears to be little arguing with the statement that, 'RSI will be
> unable to provide IDL on the MAC OS X platform as previously planned'
> listed on this page. I know if I have already bought a license for IDL
> under the pretense of OS X support, I would be seeking a refund.
>
> Does anyone know if IDL works under classic running on OS X? Also, does
> anyone know if the Carbon API is considered 'static' or is it as dynamic
> as it was during the spring? Could this be the cause of the halted port?
>
> Cheers,
> Randall
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Reimar Bauer wrote:
>
>> last year I met David Stern in Darmstadt. This was before the idl5.4
>> release.
>>
>> At this time I was informed that idl5.4 for AIX will be the last
>> Version. One of the reasons is the migration from IBM to linux.
>> I remember that several times it was discussed how difficulty
>> it is to support more and more platforms or older and older
>> platforms.
>>
>> We ourselfs are in a process to migrate from AIX to linux PCs
>> too so this statement was bad for us but not as bas as it could be.
>> Then with the idl5.4 release installed on AIX everytime idl
>> was started we got a message that this is the last supported
>> version for AIX.
>> We and I believe some more others asked them to build IDL5.5 for
>> AIX too and you are seeing the result. IDL5.5 will be builded
>> for AIX too.
>>
>> There was no discussion about AIX and IDL in this newsgroup as
>> I remember. I hope you all give your arguments to RSI too.
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Reimar
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Reimar Bauer
>>
>> Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
>> Forschungszentrum Juelich
>> email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
>> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
>> ============================================================ ======
>> a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
>> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
>>
>> http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
>> ============================================================ ======
>>
>> read something about linux / windows
>> http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html
>>
>
>

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		Mac OSX By: Richard Adams on Mon, 08 October 2001 03:53
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:21
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Thu, 11 October 2001 01:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:22
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:46
		Re: Mac OSX By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 11:34
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Thu, 11 October 2001 01:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:38
		Re: Mac OSX By: Todd Clements on Wed, 10 October 2001 10:43
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 07:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 07:22
		Re: Mac OSX By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 10 October 2001 06:18
		Re: Mac OSX By: Richard Adams on Wed, 10 October 2001 05:56
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 05:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Bernard K. on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:37
		Re: Mac OSX By: Rob.Preece on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:29
		Re: Mac OSX By: Bernard K. on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:33
		Re: Mac OSX By: Wayne Landsman on Tue, 09 October 2001 23:18
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 22:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 21:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: gschneider on Tue, 09 October 2001 16:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 October 2001 13:45
		Mac Scoop (Long) By: Noam R. Izenberg on Thu, 11 October 2001 14:25
		Re: Mac Scoop (Long) By: msienkiewicz on Fri, 12 October 2001 17:30
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: richard hilton on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 14 October 2001 17:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:47
		Re: Mac OSX By: Martin Otte on Thu, 11 October 2001 14:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 11 October 2001 08:48
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Thu, 11 October 2001 08:23
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 23:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 21:25
		Re: Mac OSX By: John Boccio on Wed, 10 October 2001 20:19
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		Re: Mac OSX By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 10 October 2001 18:33
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 16:41
		Re: Mac OSX By: pit on Sat, 13 October 2001 11:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 14:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:39
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:27
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ken Prager on Fri, 12 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Fri, 12 October 2001 08:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: pit on Mon, 15 October 2001 12:21
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