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

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 09:39:52 MET


Hi Nick,

I am afraid that you are just confusing people:
 - 3.02/06 is not yet available. Current version is 3.02/05
 - Your problems are not related to I/O, but to ownership in TObjArrays.
 - I gave to you a recipee yesterday for the question of ownersip.


Rene Brun

Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:
> 
> Dear ROOTers,
> I am also experiencing problems with the I/O in version 3.02/06.
> Somehow writing of instances of one of my private classes fails with
> 3.02/06 using the new schema evolution, whereas with the old streamer
> method (i.e. no "+" in the Linkdef.h) everything works correctly.
> I get the impression that the problem(s) are related to TObject::Clone(),
> which uses the I/O streamers as far as I understnad.
> I am still investigating things, but I also think that it would be
> better to wait a bit before making 3.02/06 the pro version.
> 
>                                                    Cheers,
>                                                     Nick.
> 
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> 
> 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
> >    2. We can not use TChain to read several TTrees' in row  (See Bill Love's report)
> >        The macro crashes occasionally
> >    3. We can not read the new files with  TVolume objects,
> >         but we can read the old versions of there files though.
> >
> >   We are working to understand the reasons of these new problems and will appreciate you
> >   will wait a little with your release.
> >
> > Have you any idea what has happened with ROOT i/o recently, that  may have affected the
> > backward compatibility ?
> >
> >     With my regards, Valeri
> > -----
> > Dr.Valeri Fine
> > STAR/US Atlas                                    E-mail: fine@bnl.gov
> > Brookhaven National Lab                   Phone: +1 631 344 7806
> > Upton, NY 11973-5000                       FAX:     +1 631 344 4206
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