RE: [ROOT] ROOT 3.04.02 and Visual .Net

From: Axel Naumann (axel@fnal.gov)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 23:09:07 MET


Hi,

> Additionally, our experience with .NET differs quite dramatically from
> Axel's assertions. We have found .NET to be extremely stable. Axel's
> claims about having to make 100 work-arounds has not been or
> experience. We made 0 changes to use VS.NET with the current vc6
> binaries, and only 2 changes (one compile flag and one source code
> change) to build ROOT 3.04.02 from source using VC.NET.

I ran into many problems with internal compiler errors with other sources.
The bug(s) is/are known, there are many circumstances that can trigger it
(see MS Knowledge base article 305980, or any of the other seven
error-code-C1001 related articles). As far as I know there's still no fix.
In total, there are currently 120 known Visual C++ .NET bugs in the
knowledge base (some of which are not relevant to normal life). From root
& VC6 I have learned that if there is a bug, it will show up. And if it
doesn't show up in the source distribution, it will show up in the
dictionary sources of user classes.

But all of that should not be a reason not to try to use .NET and root.
Sorry that my posting was discouraging.

Cheers, Axel.



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