Re: [ROOT] TPGON and OpenGL - X3D and Shift interface

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 16:18:48 MET


Christian,

I cannot comment on Castor. The installation procedure works OK on Unix systems
and Windows. This is OK.

Concerning TViewerOIV: it is our intention to discontinue the support
for this viewer. Our effort is going to TViewerOpenGL. This class provides far
more functionality than the old OI viewer.

Rene brun

Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> 
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:48 +0100, Rene Brun wrote:
> > Christian,
> >
> > You forgot the attachements concerning your problem with TPGON.
> 
> I think they came with a later mail, didn't they?  Anyway, Olivier has
> fixed it.
> 
> > About shift, the situation is quite messy.
> > When you import the new shift, you get the Castor library.
> > On my system I have installed shift/Castor in my $HOME/Castor and I set
> >   --with-shift-incdir=$HOME/castor/include/shift \
> >   --with-shift-libdir=$HOME/castor/lib
> 
> Sorry, I don't get this.  What do you mean `When you import the new
> shift, you get the Castor library.'  Do you mean, that one should get
> the CASTOR libraries (which then presumably contains the SHIFT library)?
> And from where should one `import' the new SHIFT library?  Is it at
> 
>          http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/castor/
> 
> If so, I think you should update `README/INSTALL' to reflect this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> BTW, I think a `Savannah'-like page for all CERN based software is an
> excellent idea.  It gives a one-point access to all relavent stuff.
> Just too bad that not all projects really use the facility well, use
> `weird' licenses, and so on.  Also, it could create the kin of `synergy'
> that has really helped the FLOSS community a lot.
> 
> > > Missing libOIV?:
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > In the default `etc/root/system.rootrc' there's the line
> > >
> > >         +Plugin.TVirtualViewer3D:   oiv TViewerOIV    OIV "TViewerOIV(TVirtualPad*)"
> > >
> > > However, the library `libOIV' isn't build, and there's no dictionary
> > > created for the `TViewerOIV' class, so this line is (double)
> > > meaningless.
> 
> What about this issue?
> 
> I think the resolution will be to create the library `libOIV' and
> generate dictionaries for the needed classes (I guess it's only
> `TViewerOIV' that really needs a dictionary).
> 
> Yours,
> 
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