| Re: IDL on an Intel Solaris 2.x box [message #3093 is a reply to message #3076] |
Wed, 02 November 1994 19:07  |
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In article <38ud32$ej1@martha.utk.edu> mahan@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Stephen Mahan) writes:
> From: mahan@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Stephen Mahan)
> Subject: IDL on an Intel Solaris 2.x box
> Date: 29 Oct 1994 16:59:14 -0400
> Keywords: Solaris, Intel
> Greetings-
> Does RSI support IDL 3.6 on an Intel box running Solaris 2.x?
> I know about Windows 3.1 and NT support for Intel processors along with
> Solaris 2.x support for Sparc processors, but I don't recall any
> information about Intels w/ Solaris as the OS.
> Stephen
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> Stephen Mahan
> University of Tennessee
> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
> 615-974-7847
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During the European IDL users meeting last week we had a long discussion with
Mr. David Stern, owner of RSI about porting IDL to unsupported operating
systems such as Linux, Intel Solaris, OS/2:
It will be done if there is enough request to justify one additional person at
RSI to support the port. There is at least one person at RSI responsible for
one operating system and there is a lot of work to be done. To port the kernel
seems to be no big deal but IDL consists of additional programs such as
interface to Motif, MS Windows GDI, ... and external routines such as
netCDF, XDR, OLE (to name a few) and others which have to be maintained
in a time schedule which is not synchronized with new IDL versions.
To have IDL ported to other operating systems we must indicate enough
request. Thus the port to Linux is no longer a matter of porting IDL to a
public domain operating system.
Norbert Hahn
University at Darmstadt
Germany
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