Removing PLASTIC support from next Aladin release

[Thomas Boch]

Hi Igor,

You made a very good point, I didn't realize that your tools were 
(still) relying on PLASTIC.
Therefore, PLASTIC support will remain integrated in Aladin v8.
Cheers,

Thomas

Igor Chilingarian wrote:
> Salut Thomas,
>
> Three of my projects will encounter troubles because of this:
>
> 1) VO-Paris Euro3D client
> 2) GalMer (http://galmer.obspm.fr/)
> 3) ASPID-SR (http://alcor.sao.ru/php/search)
>
> Presently, I have no time to upgrade these applications to use SAMP, 
> so the large part of the functionality will be lost. Since GalMer is 
> used regularly by ~450 people, it will really be a problem...
>
> With best regards,
>                         Igor
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Thomas Boch wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As nearly all VO applications have now moved from PLASTIC to SAMP, we 
>> (the aladin team) plan to remove the PLASTIC support from the next 
>> version (Aladin v7) which will be released for fall 2010.
>> If anybody thinks it is a bad idea or foresees some potential 
>> problems because of this decision, please tell us now.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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