Hi Dave, as I said you hardly can get your (our) 1-8 for free. I suppose that people really providing ROOT with lines of useful code (apart from Rene and Fons) are either learning things or paied by scientific insititutions/experiemnts using ROOT. All these people work with Linux and basically this is what Mr. George Soros has called "the theory of reflexivity" (for finance though:) ). ROOT pushes people to switch to Linux since it works well on Linux and then people who switched to Linux and learned ROOT start to support ROOT development.. well, you are right, on Linux. Then of course there is nobody around who knows NT-ROOT combination. I personally knew VC and all these sh#$ three-four years ago but now I forgot it and know some Linux instead since our experiment worked with ROOT and ROOT sux under windows. In general NT/win2000 is fine. Everybody uses it, even those who try to hide it to look like real unix gurus. Where do you play Quake guys? ROOT of course should be running on win. As I said I do not expect that Bill Gates sends us someone who will do the job for free. Instead, my experience tells that 1-8 are already solved in Qt (especially 1, 2 and 3 :) ). It has GUI, threads, tmake utility, etc. for all unix and nt platforms. Of course you have to pay for Qt on win (although not for the binary ROOT distribution, i.e. if you write ROOT windows for canvas and dialogs in Qt, you can distribute it. I hope CERN can afford 1.500 USD). Regards, Anton === Perhaps we should form a Win32 Root users group and try to mount a more organized attack on the various problems. There are probably others, but in order of importance I would say: 1) GUI 2) GUI 3) GUI 4) VStudio Projects and build procedures 5) Documentation (in particular, what is known not to work) 6) Memory management and libNew 7) Installation 8) Threads (this reflects the irrelevance of the topic to me personally; it may well be more important to others) ===
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