IDE and libUrl

[Brian Yennie]

This reminds me of the warning the tools stack used to always give me 
when I got new beta releases of Metacard- that the version of the tools 
stack didn't match the version of the engine. Could we use this same 
sort of logic, and maybe add an extra line or two to the IDE to 
specifically check for a matching version of libURL? The user could of 
course ignore the warning, but at least they'd be likely to understand 
why their URL scripts were failing after receiving said warning...

- Brian

> Hi all
>
> First, apologies for not making a bigger contribution to the IDE. 
> (weak excuses about other commitments, new dog ate my e-mail, etc.)  
> As an almost full-time user of the IDE, I'm grateful to everyone 
> involved, and especially the great poohbah.
>
> Of course, there have been times when it looked like the whole IDE 
> might fall prey to creeping eye candy (that modernistic splash screen 
> for example, and older users probably think things started going south 
> when the image icon changed some years back, was that you Rossi?  
> <grin>).
>
> Anyway, to more serious things...
>
> The version of libUrl (1.1a3) currently being distributed with the Rev 
> 2.5 beta (engine 2.6.1) is not backwards compatible with earlier 
> engines. This is because of syntax added to support secure sockets in 
> https URLs. I plan to make future updaters aware of the engine 
> version, and install the appropriate version. However, this might not 
> be enough to keep confusion away.
>
> I'm not sure if the plan is to release new MC IDEs with each engine 
> release (if so, then there mau be no problem), but I'm guessing people 
> are hoping to be able to use the same IDE over a range of engine 
> releases. There could be problems if people swap engines about 
> liberally without being sure to have an appropriate version of libUrl 
> in place.
>
> I can't think of an easy way round this problem right now. But if 
> anyone has any thoughts, please let me know.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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