Re: ROOT and repositories

Hi,

Thiemo Nagel wrote on 03/29/2010 06:00 PM:
> (Cc'ing Christian Holm Christensen, the maintainer of Debian's ROOT
> packages.)

Yes, you're correctly pointing out that Debian is the lucky platform, where the situation is a *lot* better than for any other distro. Christian is providing packages on a best effort basis for many years now.

> Actually, Debian release managers seem to have removed ROOT 5.24 already
> (which initially had been targeted for the upcoming squeeze release).

They have moved on amd64 and ia64. 5.24 was released last June, which makes it pretty old already. 5.26 would be far better. Actually not a single new installation of ROOT should be != 5.26. I have no idea when and if 5.26 will arrive in any distro.

> Personally, I think option A would serve many ROOT users very well
> (especially those who use it only casually) and I'm a bit sad that it
> doesn't look like as if it's going to happen...

I agree, but that doesn't solve it :-) Not seeing a solution I am still strongly in favor of people building from sources themselves.

> Having said that, distributions might be more eager to pick up ROOT if
> it would adhere to standards more (FHS comes to mind...) making
> packaging easier.

Last time I checked that was not an issue, thanks to our configure script. I believe we also have a pretty good record of reacting quickly to requests by packagers, e.g. CINT vs ROOT's CINT; licenses; directories. So I find your point somewhere between incorrect and unfair. Anyway, finger pointing and coming up with guesses for reasons is also not going to solve the packaging issue, I'm afraid. This has also nothing to do with Christian or any other single person - it's a systematic issue that will probably never get resolved unless some lab / uni / company decides to go for it. Until then: use the source, Luke!

Cheers, Axel. Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 18:25:13 CEST