Re: [ROOT] Re: ROOT] LAST CALL for comments before closing ROOT version 3.02

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 23:03:53 MET


Hi

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Valeri Fine wrote:

> Hello Rene,
> 
> > We intend to release Root version 3.02/06 this week. This will be the PRO
> > release.
> 
>   He have discovered several problems with the last version of ROOT from CVS 
> 
>    1. We can not read back our files written half year ago (with ROOT 3.00.06)
>        We have not had any problem to read them with ROOT versions 3.02.00 / 01

Could you be more explicit? I cannot do anything with just this info.

>
2. We
can not use TChain to read several TTrees' in row (See Bill Love's report)
>        The macro crashes occasionally

I am waiting from Bill a session where he can reproduce the problem.

>
3. We can not read the new files with TVolume objects,
>         but we can read the old versions of there files though.

TVolume has not been modified in version 3.02.

> 
>   We are working to understand the reasons of these new problems and will appreciate you
>   will wait a little with your release.

Why are you reporting these problems only now? 
> 
> Have you any idea what has happened with ROOT i/o recently, that  may have affected the 
> backward compatibility ?

So far, you are the only one complaining. If there are other people with
the same experience, please let me know.

When you encounter an I/O problem, I suggest the following procedure:
Set gDebug=2; before reading or writing. The I/O functions in
TStreamerInfo
will print one line for each data member of a class being read/written.
It also shows the persistent class definition. This should help you
to localize the problem.

Rene Brun


> 
>     With my regards, Valeri
> -----
> Dr.Valeri Fine
> STAR/US Atlas                                    E-mail: fine@bnl.gov
> Brookhaven National Lab                   Phone: +1 631 344 7806
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> 
> 
> 
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