Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98

From: Phil Taddei (phillyla@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 23:27:41 MET


Please do not discontinue the windows distribution.  It has been very
helpful for our group.  I'll take it as is.

Phil Taddei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Fokin" <anton.fokin@smartquant.com>
To: "Nick van Eijndhoven" <Nick@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: "roottalk" <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>; "Fons Rademakers"
<Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch>; <dcasper@uci.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98


> Well,
>
> Once Fons said (with sarcasm though) that they perhaps should sell ROOT
for
> windows as everybody does in the windows community and since windows
itself
> is a commercial os. Perhaps this is right the solution. Instead of having
> lot of holes in the win distribution: missing GUI, threads, installations,
> crashes and so on and still trying to maintain win version, why don't you
> start taking money and employ _real_ windows experts. I mean you can not
get
> _real_ windows experts for free. That's what we've been dealing with
during
> last several years. _Real_ windows experts work for money: why on the
Earth
> one should learn windows to write free soft for ROOT? Or should we give up
> windows distribution?
>
> Regards,
> Anton
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick van Eijndhoven <Nick@phys.uu.nl>
> To: Anton Fokin <anton.fokin@smartquant.com>
> Cc: roottalk <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>; Fons Rademakers
> <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch>; <dcasper@uci.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98
>
>
> > Hi Anton,
> > It is indeed the crashes etc... w.r.t. some canvas actions which I am
> referring to.
> > For instance, if you have a histo and rightclick on one of the axes in
> order to
> > enter an axis title, the canvas disappears as soon as you have entered
the
> text.
> > In the browser one can still see the canvas, but the only way of getting
> the
> > plot (in which indeed the axis text appears correctly) back again is to
> create
> > a new canvas and draw the histo again in that canvas.
> > Setting selection criteria by rightclicking in a TTreeViewer window
> however
> > directly results in a crash of the ROOT session.
> > Note that TTreeViewer also automatically opens 2 windows instead of only
> 1.
> > The latter has been observed also by the ROOT developers as far as I
have
> understood
> > but so far the problem hasn't been fixed yet.
> >
> > In creating and executing my private programs and libs (i.e. 'batch'
> work),
> > everything works fine with the latest versions as far as I can see.
> > So, it is mainly the interactive analysis work which can not be
performed
> > with version later than 2.22/10 on win98 machines, but needless to say
> > this is a very important feature which needs to function properly.
> >
> >                                                               Cheers,
> >                                                                Nick.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Org.:    Utrecht University/Nikhef, Department of Subatomic Physics
> > Address: P.O. Box 80.000, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
> > Phone:   +31-30-2532331(direct) +31-30-2531492(secr.)  Fax:
+31-30-2518689
> > NIKHEF:  +31-20-5922028(direct) +31-20-5922000(secr.)  Fax:
+31-20-5925155
> > CERN:    +41-22-7679751(direct) +41-22-7675857(secr.)  Fax:
+41-22-7679480
> > Offices: Buys Ballot lab. 710 (Utrecht)   H350 (Nikhef)   B23 1-020
(CERN)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Anton Fokin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Nick,
> > >
> > > actually I am not creating ROOT binaries from scratch but rather
trying
> to
> > > compile my own (unix) project on win98. What are the problems around
> root
> > > 3.02 bins on win98? I've been quite successful with making my libs
under
> > > win98 and running exe and scripts, although I have noted that root
> crashes
> > > on some actions with canvas etc.
> > >
> > > PS. to "installshield" discussion. I checked out InstallShield coming
> with
> > > MSVC... It has "change registry" part in the install script, so what's
> the
> > > problem with setting paths under install? On the other hand what
> prevents
> > > you from writing a few lines in the shield script which will manually
> add
> > > two lines in autoexec.bat file? You have to restart com then but who
> > > cares...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Anton
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Nick van Eijndhoven <Nick@phys.uu.nl>
> > > To: Anton Fokin <anton.fokin@smartquant.com>
> > > Cc: roottalk <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>; Fons Rademakers
> > > <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch>; <dcasper@uci.edu>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:55 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98
> > >
> > > > Hi Anton,
> > > > I am pleased to hear that you are creating ROOT binaries from
scratch
> > > > on a Win98 platform.
> > > > As you know after ROOT 2.22/10 I have several problems when running
> the
> > > > ROOT binaries from the web on my win98 machine (you can ask Valery
> Fine
> > > > for details if you want). So win98 users are basically bound to stay
> with
> > > > the old 2.22/10 version.
> > > > I would like to suggest that once you have succeeded to create a
> > > completely
> > > > working set of ROOT binaries on a win98 system, that this version
will
> > > also
> > > > be made available to the outside world via the ROOT web pages.
> > > > On the pages one could then indicate this version as win98 specific.
> > > > Could the ROOT team please consider this, since in our group many
> people
> > > > use laptops and for these things we have the feeling that the
flexible
> > > win98
> > > > OS is much more convenient than winNT or win2000.
> > > >
> > > >                                                          Cheers,
> > > >                                                           Nick.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl
> http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick
> > >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Org.:    Utrecht University/Nikhef, Department of Subatomic Physics
> > > > Address: P.O. Box 80.000, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
> > > > Phone:   +31-30-2532331(direct) +31-30-2531492(secr.)  Fax:
> +31-30-2518689
> > > > NIKHEF:  +31-20-5922028(direct) +31-20-5922000(secr.)  Fax:
> +31-20-5925155
> > > > CERN:    +41-22-7679751(direct) +41-22-7675857(secr.)  Fax:
> +41-22-7679480
> > > > Offices: Buys Ballot lab. 710 (Utrecht)   H350 (Nikhef)   B23 1-020
> (CERN)
> > >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anton Fokin wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > well, I was using Makefile included in the test directory. Yes, I
> saw
> > > > > Makefile.win32 in the same directory and I have tryied this one
too
> (and
> > > it
> > > > > works somehow). Anyway, I suppose that if there is a Makefile in
the
> > > binary
> > > > > distribution, it should be naturally related to this specific
> version of
> > > the
> > > > > distribution, so that a user can type nmake and get things
compiled.
> > > > > Moreover, there is "win32" portion of lines in the Makefile, so
that
> I
> > > > > assume this file is the correct one.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, what I need is a makefile which works on both linux and
> win32,
> > > > > depending on a platform. Do we have such clever one? I am not
> win32/VC
> > > > > expert, so that I would like to get my linux root programs easily
> > > recompiled
> > > > > under win32. I thought I can use generic ROOT test Makefile upper
> part
> > > for
> > > > > that... Can I?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Anton
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
>



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