Re: Two new IDL Help Articles describing how to use the Workbench are made available now. [message #82304 is a reply to message #82302] |
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lecacheux.alain
Messages: 325 Registered: January 2008
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Le jeudi 6 décembre 2012 18:42:20 UTC+1, David Fanning a écrit :
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>> As a recent IDL user and linux fan I cannot comment on IDL 6.4. But I
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>> agree that the workbench is heavy, and I found the IDL7* workbench more
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>> stable and more effective than IDL8*.
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>> However, I am using SVN on a regular (daily? hourly?) basis and would
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>> not want to use an external tool than the eclipse workbench for it, this
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>> would be too tiring.
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> I use TortoiseSVN on my Windows machines (outside the Workbench)
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> and I love it. (I just use the already existing SVN client on my
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> LINUX machines.) I don't find it tiring. What I do find tiring
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> awhile on their own machines. :-)
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
David and Fabien,
I certainly do not want to go back to 6.4 ! The IDL Workbench is there and we must now use it.
I would find it quite usable, when Exelis will have i) improved the corresponding documentation (the new articles which are the subject of this thread are a promising step in this direction), ii) fixed the unstable behaviour of the Workbench while debugging or restarting from error. This unstability may lead, - as already mentioned in previous threads -, to a full reset or even a cold restart of IDL with, of course, the penality of some editing or data loss.
That is, in my opinion, more important than SVN capability or any other gadget.
alain.
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