Part of the package with RDi is that is always "out of sync" in syntax if you use it with more recent machines with latest language support.
Yes, in an ideal world the tooling supporting new syntax should be released and available before issuing the tech refreshes on the field on the machine, but, well...
Yes, plenty of times gives also some weird syntax error event in normal syntax, it trips sometimes in complex source, despite compiling correctly. But well, it's RDi.
First 9.8 release was technically unusable for me, no support for source in iASP (!!!), after half an year (!) they now have released the update fixing this major problem.
So to your question, 9.8 is "better" (in a pure comparative way) to 9.6? yes , at least support more syntax and seems a little snappier (I don't exclude being delusional on this ;) ).
Regarding license, I don't know, I have active maintenance on the product so I just downloaded the new one with the new license.
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon June 24, 2024 09:08 AM
From: David Taylor
Subject: RDi 9.6 vs 9.8
I see some of the newer features do not appear correctly in RDi 9.6.0.13. For example dcl-enum does not appear the same as dcl-ds though the program still compiles. I remember some confusion over 9.8 when it came out. Does it still fall under the same license as 9.6? Will we need to pay again if we switch now? Is 9.8 stable and robust?
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David Taylor
Sr Application Developer
Range Resources
Fort Worth
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