Re: compilation failure workaround (RH 5.2 / 2.22.10)

From: Jeff Templon (templon@studbolt.physast.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 09 1999 - 17:47:27 MEST


Hi Matt, Hi Root,

Thanks for the patch ... it came a few hours too late, as I began this 
weekend upgrading to RH 6.0 (ugh).

One comment:

Matthew D. Langston writes:

 > > then what is the mechanism for failure of the ROOT tarball to work?
 > > Many other packages work just fine like this.
 > 
 > Although this idea would work in theory, I don't believe that it would
 > work in practice.  The majority of users use their computers for many
 > other things besides running ROOT.  It would be an unreasonable burden
 > on users to force them to maintain a particular configuration just so
 > that they could run ROOT.  A software package should serve its users,
 > not vice versa.

My view on this is that the ROOT team provides a service by providing
the tarballs.  Your last comment I think is turned around, though
... I would prefer that the ROOT team assume a _STANDARD_
configuration when they provide the tarball, and HOPE that any
upgrades a user has done on their own would be compatible.  The
situation now with the 2.2.10 RedHat "5.2" tarball is that a user MUST 
upgrade, the standard configuration for 5.2 WILL NOT WORK with ROOT.
So a user must upgrade, and this is the user serving the software
package.

my 0.02 (how many euros is that?)

				JT



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