Hi George, support for both 10.1 and 10.2 is pretty trivial. I only need to know how I can differentiate between the two versions in the makefile. Is there a command like uname that provides an OS version number? Cheers, Fons. On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 00:25, George Irwin wrote: > 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 -- 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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