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Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem [message #45349]

Tue, 06 September 2005 12:44

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD Smith writes:

> No really... I wasn't trying to be cheeky, just expressing ignorance. Are
> projects more than collections of files easily called up at once? What
> are their advantages?

In theory, I think projects are designed so that you can
leave programs in library directories and add them to
your project without moving them. Then, when you "build"
the project, you get one file with all the executable
code.

In practice, I don't think too many people ship executable
files. I think they ship source code too. Then the whole
project idea breaks down completely because IDL doesn't
store the build order with the project. So you have to
dump all the damn program files in a single directory to
make it work on someone else's machine anyway.

So, come to think of it, there probably isn't a single
good reason for *using* projects, except that I find it
a reasonably good interface for organizing and finding
source files as I am working on something. Paltry, I know,
but Windows users are used to grasping at straws. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 September 2005 12:44
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 September 2005 12:18
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 September 2005 11:30
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 September 2005 10:40
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 September 2005 08:12
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 06 September 2005 07:11
		Re: Another IDL 6.2 Project Problem By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 September 2005 06:49

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