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Re: Name Space Conflicts [message #47866 is a reply to message #47864]

Wed, 08 March 2006 12:34

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Nothing constructive here. Just whining and wishing for the
> good ol' days when only about 10-15 of us were using IDL.
> (And, of course, everyone at NASA Goddard.)
>
> There are so many LIBRARIES of IDL routines these days!
> Every time I write a new program I run into name space
> conflicts. The latest is IMGSCL, which even I thought was
> too obvious. But I did run a quick check against the NASA
> and JHUAPL libraries and when I didn't find a match
> I ran out and bought a Powerball ticket. But just now
> a Goggle search of "IDL IMGSCL" turns up 10-15 different
> programs. Sigh... (And I didn't have ANY of the six
> Powerball numbers, either.)
>
> I don't know what to do about this, generally.

Why not prefix it with FSC_ like some of your other code? Or prefix it with something
else, like the shortened category name under which you've organised this particular code
in your (backed up nightly) CVS repository (right?) :o)

paulv

Although
> in this particular case, I'm going to change the name
> to GMASCL to better reflect its use. We need an organization,
> similar to the ones who give you domain names, to sort
> all this out.
>
> Or, perhaps, someone can write one of those dot com
> name generator programs for us, so our programs can be
> "powerful and futuristic". :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>

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Paul van Delst
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC

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		Re: Name Space Conflicts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:17
		Re: Name Space Conflicts By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 March 2006 12:49
		Re: Name Space Conflicts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 March 2006 12:34
		Re: Name Space Conflicts By: Tom Berger on Thu, 09 March 2006 08:41

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