Re: Shall we not use ROOT in cygwin at all ?

From: Axel Naumann <Axel.Naumann_at_cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:44:01 +0200

Hi Wei,

I clarified the message a bit on the latest dev download page (it might get changed again within the next minutes :-):

"Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we only provide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to use the version above compiled with VC++."

This should clarify why we recommend you and others not to use it: the performance is absolutely incomparable to MSVC builds. We also don't test ROOT on cygwin as thoroughly as on the other platforms. So it's really at your own risk, don't blame us if you hate it :-)

Cheers, Axel.

Wei Xie wrote on 06/24/2009 06:33 PM:

> In the following message, I mean "..we should NOT trust any ..."?
> 
> Wei Xie wrote:

>> In the ROOT download website, there is the following note:
>> --------------------------------------
>> "Note that cygwin/gcc is currently in a very poor status. We strongly
>> recommend to use the win32gdk version above compiled with VC++7.1. The
>> ROOT team will not answer any messages related to problems with the
>> win32gcc version. "
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> Since we are using ROOT to do data analysis, does above note mean that
>> we should trust any analysis that's done using ROOT in cygwin?
>>
>> Thanks
>> --Wei
>>

>
> Received on Wed Jun 24 2009 - 18:44:39 CEST