JoeMize Sep 19, 2010
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From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide 9
> Hi Joe,
>
> Yes, I'm keeping GSC on the disk. This is in part because even with
> UCAC-3 in the world, people will still sometimes want to find the star
> "Formerly Known As" GSC 3141 5926, and will want to be able to show
> stars labelled with GSC identifiers.
>
> I've also retained the ability to display GSC, though I can't really
> see any good reason to do this except for testing purposes. I just didn't
> see reason to rip all the code out. (The GSC data consumes about 200
> MBytes, which is peanuts on a 4.7 GByte DVD.)
>
> This also makes it possible that, at some point, you'll be able to
> click on a UCAC-3 star and get both UCAC-3 and GSC data. I haven't done
> that yet. There is no cross-index, so I'll have to do some additional
> work... almost certainly not until after Guide 9 is released.
>
>> Although I believe the answer is "Yes", will Guide8 and Guide9 co-exist?
>
> Yes. Because I don't want to maintain two separate batches of code,
> there is really just one Guide software, which will be able to run with
> Guide 8 and 9 disks. (And probably Guide 7 disks, though I've not tried
> that
> in a while.) Of course, when you run with an older disk, you'll be
> missing
> new data, and usually some nifty features requiring large files only
> found
> on the newer disks.
>
> This, incidentally, is one more reason I've left the Guide 9 software
> capable of doing everything with GSC: it's important to me that the
> software
> still work with 8.0 disks, which only have GSC on them.
>
> -- Bill
>
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