[ROOT] WARNING: Plan to drop support for several platforms

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 09:24:34 MEST


Dear Rooters,

In order to improve our support for new platforms, we are planning
to drop support for old OS/compilers. From our FTP distribution site,
we still see several imports from the following versions, but it looks
like people importing these files are just mirroring our site.
The binary versions that we are planning to drop are:

  -AIX.5.tar.gz
  -HP-UX.B.10.20.aCC.tar.gz
  -IRIX.6.5.cc.tar.gz
  -IRIX.6.5.gcc.tar.gz
  -IRIX.6.5.kcc.tar.gz
  -Linux.RH6.1.gcc2952.tar.gz
  -OSF1.V4.0.cxx6.tar.gz
  -OSF1.V4.0.tar.gz
  -SunOS.5.7.tar.gz

In addition, we would like to drop support at the source level
for the HP-UX/aCC compiler, the egcs compilers and MS/VC++6.

Please, let us know as soon as possible, if you are still
using these binary files or compiling from source for aCC, egcs
compilers or MS/VC++6.
In case you are still using these old systems/compilers, could you
tell us when you are planning to move away from these systems.

Note also that under Windows, we will drop support for the win32
version, supporting only win32gdk and win32gcc.

Rene Brun



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