Hi, This binary distribution format would be helpful to me as well. Could you just choose one of the formats say "root/3.02.07/" as the default. I would be willing to conform to whatever you chose to eliminate the extra installation step. Kerry -----Original Message----- From: Fons Rademakers [mailto:Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:54 AM To: Heather Kelly Cc: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch Subject: Re: [ROOT] binary distributions 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 -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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