Hi Valeri
The advantage I referred is really because I'm a Linux user. The way to use GCC version of ROOT in cygwin is exactly the same as in a linux machine. One can run ROOT in a xterm in any directory and can also use mouse to copy any text into the root prompt.
For the VC++ version, one need to use mouse to click on the ROOT icon everytime to run a macro and need to type in the full path before the macro name in order to run it. The mouse copy is also not working in this case. On the other hand, this may simply because I don't know some setups to overcome all these barriers? If there is such setups, a documentation on ROOT website would be appreciated.
Thanks
--Wei
Fine, Valeri wrote:
>> That clarify the situation a lot. On the other hand, using ROOT >> directly in cygwin is really convenient.
>> I guess the following question is for cygwin team: >> is there a future plan that to get the cygwin/gcc >> performance improved?
>> Axel Naumann wrote: >>> Hi Wei, >>> >>> I clarified the message a bit on the latest dev download page (it
>>> get changed again within the next minutes :-): >>> >>> "Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very >>> poor; we only provide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly >>> recommend to use the version above compiled with VC++." >>> >>> This should clarify why we recommend you and others not to use it:
>>> performance is absolutely incomparable to MSVC builds. We also don't >>> test ROOT on cygwin as thoroughly as on the other platforms. So it's >>> really at your own risk, don't blame us if you hate it :-) >>> >>> Cheers, Axel. >>> >>> Wei Xie wrote on 06/24/2009 06:33 PM: >>>> In the following message, I mean "..we should NOT trust any ..."? >>>> >>>> Wei Xie wrote: >>>>> In the ROOT download website, there is the following note: >>>>> -------------------------------------- >>>>> "Note that cygwin/gcc is currently in a very poor status. We
>>>>> recommend to use the win32gdk version above compiled with VC++7.1. >>>>> The ROOT team will not answer any messages related to problems
>>>>> the win32gcc version. " >>>>> -------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Since we are using ROOT to do data analysis, does above note mean >>>>> that we should trust any analysis that's done using ROOT in
>>>>> Thanks >>>>> --Wei >>>>> >>>>
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