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Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... [message #75549 is a reply to message #75548]

Thu, 17 March 2011 12:26

George Millward
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Registered: February 2000

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On Mar 17, 11:39 am, Paolo <pgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 12:44 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
>
>> David Fanning writes:
>>> Several things can help. First, better communication!
>>> (And, by the way, Wayne Landsman is terrific to work with.)
>>> I don't mind people fixing bugs and adding features to my
>>> programs, but please let me know about it. I'm all for
>>> writing better programs!
>
>> And if you DO make changes to someone else's library
>> programs and choose not to tell them about it, at least
>> give the programs a different name. Otherwise chaos will
>> reign supreme. :-(
>
> Right - and solarsoft is quite guilty of that due to the
> fact that there are a large number of contributors that
> are not necessarily aware of each other's work - so
> sometimes I have encountered inconsistencies even
> between different branches of solarsoft (though
> that wasn't very often).
>
> As a lesson learned, everyone should write all their future
> software with a 2- (or better 3-) letter unique identifier
> in the program names - especially when they edit existing
> routines and change them.
>
> For the future, maybe some better namespace management tools
> should be added to IDL...
>
> Ciao,
> Paolo
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> David
>
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
>
>

Agreed that it's all a right pain. For now I think the solution for
me will be just to do a specific .compile
and go with that. Incidentally, the coyote library is really a victim
of it's own success in this regard.... whenever I
get given an idl project to work on it almost always has it's own
built in copy of coyote, so I can end up with half a dozen
coyote directories - and that's before any links into solarsoft or
anything.

Anyhow, thanks for the help,

George.

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		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: penteado on Thu, 17 March 2011 13:30
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: penteado on Thu, 17 March 2011 13:26
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 12:42
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: George Millward on Thu, 17 March 2011 12:26
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: pgrigis on Thu, 17 March 2011 10:39
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 09:44
		Re: How to specify which exact version of a subroutine to use.... By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 March 2011 09:40

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