| Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 [message #94106 is a reply to message #94105] |
Thu, 19 January 2017 14:39   |
Helder Marchetto
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Registered: November 2011
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On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 11:27:41 PM UTC+1, Helder wrote:
> On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 11:24:26 PM UTC+1, wallabadah wrote:
>> It might also be worth noting that the lmgr() function has been decimated, presumably related to the change in licensing model.
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>> From IDL 8.5 online help:
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>> Result = LMGR( [, /DEMO | , /EMBEDDED | , /RUNTIME | , /STUDENT | , /TRIAL | , /VM] [, EXPIRE_DATE=variable] [, /FORCE_DEMO] [, INSTALL_NUM=variable] [, LMHOSTID=variable] [, SITE_NOTICE=variable])
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>> and from IDL 8.6:
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>> Result = LMGR( [/RUNTIME | , /VM])
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>> One of my applications uses the LMHOSTID return variable to check it's being run by a registered user... which is no longer possible in 8.6. It was a neat way of finding out the MAC address of the host, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one using it....
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>> looking for a solution,
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>> Will.
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> Hi Will,
> thanks for reporting this. I was doing the same exact thing: using lmgr to check the mac address and validating that.
> Nooooooo!
> Why remove the function if it is not used by IDL licensing software? We had access to it and we used it for our own licensing!
> Great!
> I'll write tech support.
> H.
It seems like the only workaround will be retrieving the mac address using spawn and some string handling:
windows: "getmac" eventually with options /FO csv or /FO list
linux (debian as su): ifconfig | grep HWaddr
At list there is some workaround, but still lmgr() was much easier to manage.
And what drives me *** is the lack of backward compatibility. If somebody installs 8.6, I can't ask them to run older software because the lmgr would fail.
Cheers, Helder
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