On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:19:34PM -0700, Matthew D. Langston wrote: > > A remote CVS repository of the ROOT sources with anonymous checkout > would solve all of these problems. Sites, and even groups within sites, > could then standardize on whatever version of the ROOT sources which > they needed. For example, one group at SLAC is currently stuck on ROOT > 2.22.04 due to some incompatibilities with later versions of ROOT, but > other groups at SLAC are using later versions of ROOT. If the ROOT > maintainer for SLAC needed to recompile an older version of ROOT (which, > in fact, we have), it would be very difficult to do so since he doesn't > have convenient access to specific versions of the ROOT sources. > I've started working with ROOT only a few weeks ago, but even from this side of view I can only agree. A remote CVS repository would solve a lot the mentioned problems. But IIRC the source code management of ROOT is done in CMZ so far, isn't it? Best regards, Volker -- Volker Hejny Tel: 02461/616853 ** Institut f. Kernphysik Fax: 02461/613930 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** --- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52425 Juelich **
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