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Re: removing old IDL versions [message #28196 is a reply to message #28195]

Mon, 26 November 2001 21:54

Craig Markwardt
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Phillip David <phillip_david@xontech.com> writes:

> David Fanning wrote:
>>
>> Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg (hvdosten@lb.netic.de) writes:
>>
>>> now I have ID 5.0, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 installed on my workstation. I would
>>> like to remove the older versions. But - before doing this - is this
>>> possible without any problems? Or should I take care of some libraries
>>> or so?
>>
>> Don't do this!
>
> Or if you decide to, at least keep the help around. We discovered that,
> some time between IDL 5.2 and IDL 5.4, the documentation for deprecated
> routines changed. In 5.2, the details of deprecated routines were given
> in the help. By the time 5.4 came along, all it said was something to
> the effect of "This routine has been deprecated. Use XXXX instead."
> This is all good and well if you're writing NEW code, but when you want
> to look up the details and figure out exactly what someone was doing
> with a HANDLE_CREATE call, it's not much use!
>
> So keep that old documentation around, because RSI isn't doing it for
> you any more. :(

And, it may be worth keeping the GIF libraries from older versions of
IDL around for your architecture. Some people have gotten them to
work under newer versions of IDL.

Craig

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		Re: removing old IDL versions By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 27 November 2001 08:45
		Re: removing old IDL versions By: Harald von der Osten-[1] on Mon, 26 November 2001 23:26
		Re: removing old IDL versions By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 26 November 2001 21:54
		Re: removing old IDL versions By: Phillip David on Mon, 26 November 2001 14:48
		Re: removing old IDL versions By: David Fanning on Mon, 26 November 2001 14:15

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