| IDL Virtual Machine--Forget It [message #63072] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 14:01  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
Maybe you, like me, saw the IDL Virtual Machine as a way
to get IDL more noticed by writing IDL applications that
you could give away to colleagues, who could download the
freely available IDL Virtual Machine to run them. Well,
think again.
I just got off the phone to IDL Technical Support.
According to the representative I talked to, this
"might have worked this way in IDL 6.3, but it doesn't
work this way now." Now, apparently, the only way
to get the Virtual Machine is to install the entire
IDL distribution.
But, it is worse than this, because the only way
someone who doesn't currently have an IDL license
can install the IDL Virtual Machine is to have the
actual IDL DVD Installation Disk. This is primarily
because you can't get to the IDL Download page without
having an official log-in.
Of course, your colleague will have to have the
*correct* distribution CD for his machine (or someone
with a license will have to have downloaded the correct
distribution from the web page and given it to him).
In short, forget about the idea of packaging your neat
application up on a CD-ROM with the IDL Virtual Machine
and handing it out to colleagues to use. Ain't gonna
happen no more.
Another useful idea sacrificed to the gods of bells and
whistles.
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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