Re: [ROOT] binary distributions

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 16:54:05 MET


Hi Heather,

  there are several schemes possible, like "root/3.02.07/" or
"root-30207" or ..., therefore we rather continue like we are doing now
and just untar into "root" after which the user can rename the directory
to the name he/she prefers.

Cheers, Fons.



On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:15, Heather Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a general request (hopefully simple) - would it be possible to have
> the binary distributions unzip into a directory named root/version/
> For example: root/3.02.07?  
> 
> I tend to have multiple versions of ROOT on my machine and it would be nice
> to have an automatic mechanism to organize the versions - rather than
> having to unzip and then rename the directory.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Heather
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