Just a small addition concerning HP-UX and aCC. The problem is that at CERN we have only access to the very old and non standard C++ compliant HP-UX 10.20 version of aCC. Modern versions of aCC on HP-UX >=11 will probably work without too many problems but as long as we don't have access to such a platform we can not guarantee the portability of ROOT to HP-UX >= 11. Anybody with such a platform who wants ROOT should lets us know and provide us with access. Cheers, Fons. On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 06:24, Rene Brun wrote: > Dear Rooters, > > In order to improve our support for new platforms, we are planning > to drop support for old OS/compilers. From our FTP distribution site, > we still see several imports from the following versions, but it looks > like people importing these files are just mirroring our site. > The binary versions that we are planning to drop are: > > -AIX.5.tar.gz > -HP-UX.B.10.20.aCC.tar.gz > -IRIX.6.5.cc.tar.gz > -IRIX.6.5.gcc.tar.gz > -IRIX.6.5.kcc.tar.gz > -Linux.RH6.1.gcc2952.tar.gz > -OSF1.V4.0.cxx6.tar.gz > -OSF1.V4.0.tar.gz > -SunOS.5.7.tar.gz > > In addition, we would like to drop support at the source level > for the HP-UX/aCC compiler, the egcs compilers and MS/VC++6. > > Please, let us know as soon as possible, if you are still > using these binary files or compiling from source for aCC, egcs > compilers or MS/VC++6. > In case you are still using these old systems/compilers, could you > tell us when you are planning to move away from these systems. > > Note also that under Windows, we will drop support for the win32 > version, supporting only win32gdk and win32gcc. > > Rene Brun -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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