IDE and libUrl

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jul 27 14:15:54 EDT 2004


Dave Cragg wrote:

> 
> On 26 Jul 2004, at 20:42, Brian Yennie wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>
> It may not be so straightforward. In the case of a new version of libUrl 
> (>= 1.1) with an old engine (< 2.6.1) I think a script error will pop up 
> as soon as the engine tries to run/compile the script. I haven't checked 
> out the details yet, but doesn't the engine start compiling scripts as 
> soon as a stack is loaded?

Yes, which has been evident when running with explicitVars on.

Have you gotten my emails on that?  I'd be happy to add the necessary 
declarations to libURL, but it would be very useful if I could use it 
when running with explicitVars (a requirement when I'm working on the MC 
IDE and a few other projects).

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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