RE: Announcing ROOT v5.30.00-rc1...

Hi,

Done. The problem is the virtual machine used to build the binaries, which is very slow, and used also to build the binaries of ROOT for SPI, hence the delay...

Cheers, Bertrand.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fons Rademakers
Sent: 17 June 2011 01:32
To: cstrato
Cc: roottalk_at_root.cern.ch; Bertrand Bellenot Subject: Re: [ROOT] Announcing ROOT v5.30.00-rc1...

Hi Christian,

  thanks for your feedback. There should also be a 32-bit VC9 binary package. Bertrand can you make it so Christian can test it.

Cheers, Fons.

On 16/06/2011 20:38, cstrato wrote:
> Dear Fons,
>
> Yesterday I have downloaded the source code root_v5.30.00-rc2.source.tar.gz
> and have already tested it on my Mac. Everything seems to work ok.
>
> However, I need to test the new version also on Windows XP and realized
> that the binary root_v5.30.00-rc2.win32.vc90.msi does not yet exist. Do you
> intend to provide this binary?
>
> It is especially important that the final version will be available as
> binary root_v5.30.00.win32.vc90.msi since this will be the version which
> will be installed on the Bioconductor servers and users of my Bioconductor
> package will download.
>
> Best regards
> Christian
>
>
> On 6/4/11 12:06 AM, Fons Rademakers wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> The release schedule is in the announcement message on the ROOT homepage
>> ;-) See the "release schedule" link.
>>
>> Cheers, Fons.
>>
>> On 2 Jun 2011, at 20:33, cstrato<cstrato_at_aon.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Fons,
>>>
>>> Thank you for this announcement.
>>>
>>> Since I was not able to use the last two production versions with my
>>> Bioconductor package "xps" I really appreciate that you have decided to
>>> publish a release candidate first.
>>>
>>> I have already tested xps with the release candidate and at the moment
>>> everything seems to work fine.
>>>
>>> I have two questions:
>>> How many release candidates do you intend to supply?
>>> Do you already know a date for the final production release?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
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>>>
>>> On 6/1/11 11:22 AM, Fons Rademakers wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> we are pleased to announce the first release candidate for ROOT version
>>>> 5.30/00. For more information see the announcement here
>>>> http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/release-candidate-53000-rc1.
>>>>
>>>> Fons Rademakers on behalf of the ROOT team.
>>>
>>
>

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