| Re: V7.0.6 release notes [message #65341 is a reply to message #65280] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 05:13   |
David Gell
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Registered: January 2009
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On Feb 26, 8:56 am, "Haje Korth" <some...@somewhere.com> wrote:
> Reimar,
> that's what I read out of that. However, I am not an expert on the subject.
>
> Haje
>
> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
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> news:go5kpp$7ops$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
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>> Haje Korth schrieb:
>>> David,
>>> That's what my wife tells me all the time. :-) So...I am trying... but
>>> life
>>> is giving me a hard time with that...
>
>>> So, I installed 7.0.6 in VMware and after the install you get the read me
>>> with the following information: "If you have an earlier version of IDL
>>> 7.0,
>>> ITT Visual Information Solutions recommends that you do not upgrade to
>>> IDL
>>> 7.0.6." Isn't that nice....
>
>>> v7.0.6. seems to be like some reduced functionality mode. The warning
>>> reads:
>>> "Support for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) communication and other strong
>>> data
>>> encryption technologies has been removed from IDL 7.0.6. This change
>>> means
>>> that the IDLnetURL, IDLnetOGCWCS, and IDLnetOGCWMS objects can not use
>>> SSL
>>> encryption in IDL 7.06. Support for the MrSID file format has also been
>>> removed. Existing IDL programs that rely on SSL encryption or MrSID
>>> functionality will not work with IDL 7.0.6." Sounds like some licensing
>>> and/or ITAR problem to me that had to be fixed.
>
>>> So, I guess it wasn't worth the download.
>
>>> Yours semi-relaxed,
>>> Haje
>
>> Dear Haje
>
>> that means now that the users which don't upgrade makes the (copyright)
>> violation if they share programs based on those files.
>
>> Does this also mean that we can't communicate with ssl servers since
>> 7.0.6?
>
>> cheers
>> Reimar
>
>>> "David Fanning" <n...@dfanning.com> wrote in message
>>> news:MPG.240f383e4a7f99e99897b0@news.giganews.com...
>>>> Haje Korth writes:
>
>>>> > not so. I downloaded this morning versions for use with windows, mac,
>>>> > and
>>>> > linux.However, there was no link to the release notes. I want to read
>>>> > them
>>>> > before I install and not after the installer has done its job and
>>>> > placed
>>>> > the
>>>> > file somewhere.
>>>> Haje, you need to loosen up! Live adventurously. Life
>>>> is a mystery. Enjoy it. :-)
>
>>>> Cheers,
>
>>>> David
>
>>>> --
>>>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>>>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
>>>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
>
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I think this may be an export version, with the strong encryption
removed to comply with ITAR.
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