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Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes [message #63920 is a reply to message #63861]

Fri, 21 November 2008 00:06

greg.addr
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Registered: May 2007

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I agree with your gripes. A VM is not a VM if it only supports
one .sav file - it's just part of an executable. If they wanted to do
it that way, it would have been preferable to package the whole lot
into a single executable (or one for each platform). Since this is not
a current possibility, I think the only way to keep both yourself and
your users sane is to have them install the full VM. Otherwise, I just
can't imagine how to cope with explaining what to do with an update,
or yet worse - how to revert to a previous version. Do that to someone
just once, and from then on you'll hear curses about anything that
whiffs of IDL. The VM ought to be more easily accessible - perhaps
they don't realise how much of a disincentive the registration process
is. Although I believe, for those fortunate to live beyond the thrills
of 1978, there's no reason you shouldn't distribute it yourself.

cheers,
Greg

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