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Re: removing old IDL versions [message #28204 is a reply to message #28196]

Mon, 26 November 2001 14:48

Phillip David
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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. :(

Phillip

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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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