Dear Rene,
I am still think this list for the technical discussion since it is the list of
what the ROOT owners claim is "Free Software" made by "Bazaar" method.
> Now to Valery, I will say the following:
> Four years ago, Fons and myself could not convince you to implement a TVirtualX
> interface under Windows.
I was never against to provide any kind assistance to do what you find useful.
I did AGREE to help to imeplement your approach.
That's true I was able to complete what you asked to do myself
The real reason is very simple. STAR experiment I am working for doesn't use
Windows operating system at all (just for MS Office and Exceed)
By this reason I could do what I could do with my spare time.
I always told you should find somebody else to deal with Windows version.
didn't I ?
> You were making the point that Microsoft had developed
> a powerful browser, etc and that we should make an interface with the MS
> browser.
The idea to use some Windows operating system feature had been implemented
with ActiveRoot. I found nothing wrong with ActiveROOT.
> We lost many years of effort in this exercise.
Which exercises did you mean ? I
I had had some ideas 5 years ago that I never had chance to implement.
Are you claiming my proposal was so poweful to stop Rene Brun for 4 years ?
I did my best to answer all questions the people may have had about ROOT
Windows interface.
< IIt would have been better to
> develop a solid TVirtualX interface on Windows together with stdin/stdout
> support that requires threads.
I don't think stdin / stdout support does require any thread.
It was more simple for me to do with thread 7 years ago though.
(By the way I don't know whether it works on Linux. Can one call printf from
the different threads for example ? )
> It is my feeling that you
Myself had proposed nothing but some information on Qt as a response
to some user questions on this list.
> are proposing to embark again into one more high
> level interface to Qt (the one who is fashionable today).
Where did you find such MY proposal ? Please elaborate.
I did say:
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk01/3861.html
" . . . So Qt is pretty attractive, however it is not mandatory to change ROOT to be able to use
Qt. This can be done the way Go4 does. I mean ROOT graphics is provided by TVIrtualX
implementation the rest GUI with Qt. In fact it is the way QGLWidget works.. . . "
I can add again if it was not clear:
"It is the user choice and it doesn't require any change of ROOT"
> May be we will meet
> again in 4 years to discuss, yet, one more high level interface with Super_Sexy_G ::)
>
You provided your "wish list" to "Qt & GUI " thread and I replied with some information
on Qt I have learned. What was wrong with that ?
Thank you.
Valeri
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