2 Aug 2002 sej   » (Master)

ivtools

ivtools-1.0.6 is out. Other than a host of build-from-source fixes, it most significantly speeds the asynchronous import of rasters from URLs by avoiding incremental display. You still get a placeholder image and return to interactive control before the connection is established and the download begins. But now you won't see anything but the placeholder image until the download is complete. The incremental display was pleasing in the era of 56k modems, but an inefficient annoyance for broadband connections.

RedHat 7.* and gcc-2.96

I finally faced up to what was required for compilation of ivtools on RedHat 7.* (it seems extraneous includes of string.h have been pulled from stdio.h, or something similar). The problem never was gcc-2.96 (a version of gcc never approved by the gcc steering committee). My bias about the ever-evolving g++ environment had blinded me to the simple fixes necessary to accomodate such a major distribution.

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