Re: [ROOT] Re: Compiling root on MacOS X 10.2 (jaguar)

From: George Irwin (gmieg@SLAC.stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 00:25:38 MEST


Hi Rene,

> This is a call for comments to the macosx community.
>
> Can we assume that all macosx users will convert to 10.2?
> Who wants support for 10.1? for how long?
> We have 3 options:
>   A- move to 10.2 only with the changes now in CVS by Mayly Sanchez
>   B- ignore 10.2 and revert to the Makefile version of yesterday
>   C- support two macosx versions
>
> Please indicate your preferences. In the absence of reactions we will
> choose solution A.

Our users probably won't switch until pushed.  With A, those who use ROOT
would have to freeze ROOT at its current version until they switch.  I
estimate ~6 months for this.  They have to make sure that all their other
software will work on 3.2 before they switch.  So I favor C for now.

Mayley reports that she sees the same benchmarks.C crash (due to recursion
stack limit overflow) on 3.2 that I see on 3.1.  I haven't pursued a
solution for this (as I promised) yet.

George



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