Hi Anton, I feel really sorry for answering your last night question only now. I am currently supposed to take some days of rest in the South of France. >- is root "oficially" supported on windows So far, the ROOT project has not been "oficially" supported by CERN. A new structure is being set up where ROOT will be "officially" supported. We are expecting to see a very strong consolidation of the project in terms of resources (manpower in particular). These are very good news. Concerning Windows support, the official policy at CERN was (is) to not give any support for Windows for Physics applications. Windows is supported for the administrative tasks and also for some engineering applications. The decision was taken about 2 years ago to support mainly Linux + another Unix system. We have provided some support for Windows (despite the fact that Fons or myself are not Windows experts at all). Support, as you know, has been originally provided by Valery, and still by Valery on a good will basis. At my knowledge, only 2 or 3 experiments currently are using Windows as an "official" platform. It is clear to me, however, that independently of the political support, a much stronger support should be given to the Windows platform. The problem is that, it is not easy to get real Windows experts as it is the case for Linux. I already mentioned several times this point to this list, and I feel somehow, that ROOT Windows users should try to cooperate to enhance this support. One of the reasons why we could not provide a better support was due to the difficulty to evolve the classes developed by Valery a few years ago in the mainstream of the GUI and graphics development. Valery did a great job in developing these classes, but the maintenance requires a Windows expert. This is the main reason why we believe that the approach we are taking in basing the new developments on TVirtualX derivatives (GDK or Qt) is the right one and the only one that can guarantee a smooth support for the medium and long term. We have been discussing with Valery following his recent development with Qt. We have agree to support this line once the full TVirtualX derivation TQT will be ready. I understand from a recent exchange with Valery that this is imminent. Once this interface is ready, I believe that the Windows maintenance will become a bit easier and also the Windows version more robust and in phase with the developments on Linux. Rene Brun On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Anton Fokin wrote: > Hi Bertrand and others, > > thanks for the reply. I did not and I do not see any other message on > roottalk about socket select. > > Looking into the problem is very kind of you but that's not the whole > issue. May I hear from rootdev team, i.e. from Rene and Fons: > > - is root "oficially" supported on windows > - who is "oficially" responsible, i.e. who is getting salary or given > paied (part)time by a collaboration/institution to provide such support > > I really enjoy nice root support provided by Rene and Fons. Moreover I > learnt a great deal of communicating with my own users on > www.smartquant.com looking at roottalk. But all these troubles with root > on windows is quite disappointing. I do understand that "technically" it > is not Rene or Fons' fault - they are not win experts... but, perhaps, > there is something to think about from "political" point of view. > > We are not talking now about luxury stuff like Qt graphics on win, but > we are talking about basic system functionalities, which form > fundamental background of the whole framework. I think this is > important. Please tell me if I am wrong. > > Cheers, > Anton > > Bellenot Bertrand - Sierre wrote: > > > Dear Anton, > > > > A reply has been sent yesterday, but apparently you > > did not received it... > > I will have a look as soon as possible, but as I'm > > quite busy now, that will not be done in the next > > few days...so please, be patient. > > > > Cheers, > > Bertrand. > > > > _________________________________________ > > > > Bertrand Bellenot > > Process Engineering > > Electronics - Computing > > > Alcan aluminium Valais > > Fabricated Products > > Casthouse Chippis > > CH - 3965 Chippis Switzerland > > Direct line +41 27 457 51 66 > > Fax +41 27 457 51 05 > > E-mail : bertrand.bellenot@alusuisse.com > > A member of the Alcan group of companies > > _________________________________________ >
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