Re: About ROOT [Was: Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot]

2005-09-18 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Fredric-Emmanuel and Kevin, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:13 -0400, Kevin McCarty wrote: Hi Frederic-Emmanuel, On 9/16/05, Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Quite frankly, it's not good enough. So you will explaine this to kde developpers :) They will switch

About ROOT [Was: Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot]

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi all, I think it's about time I say a few words on ROOT, and ROOT and Debian. On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 17:04 -0400, Brett Viren wrote: Thomas Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a quick look at the sources. Really large. It is. It represents the development effort of some 20-30

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Brett Viren wrote: Thomas Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do I understand the source correct, ROOT comes with a copy of 'cint'. Is this necessary or can it use an existing 'cint'? Yes, it is absolutely (and unfortunately) central. Out of curiosity (sorry for the sidetrack), why do you

Re: About ROOT [Was: Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot]

2005-09-16 Thread Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA
Hello Quite frankly, it's not good enough. So you will explaine this to kde developpers :) They will switch to bksys/Scons. (we can not says that kde is a small project :). Blender is already using it. Reading further into the manual, I was glad to see that it actually had and

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-16 Thread Brett Viren
Hi Kevin, Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity (sorry for the sidetrack), why do you say unfortunately? You just don't like C++ being used as a scripting language, or some other reason? Yes, my snarky comment was mostly based on the design decision of using C++ as

Re: About ROOT [Was: Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot]

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin McCarty
Hi Frederic-Emmanuel, On 9/16/05, Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Quite frankly, it's not good enough. So you will explaine this to kde developpers :) They will switch to bksys/Scons. (we can not says that kde is a small project :). Blender is already using it.

Re: About ROOT [Was: Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot]

2005-09-16 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Christian Holm Christensen wrote: The build system of ROOT is horrible - I should know, I helped make it initially. Back when we did the build system, Autotools was really an option, for a verity of reasons. The foremost was (and still is), that Autotools (Libtool in particular) doesn't

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:55:17PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: Do I understand the source correct, ROOT comes with a copy of 'cint'. Is this necessary or can it use an existing 'cint'? Would reduce the source by ~15% and also the configure/compile effort. What is

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El lun, 12-09-2005 a las 22:49, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió: El lun, 12-09-2005 a las 18:35, Christian Holm Christensen escribió: [snip] Just so you know, the ROOT Debian packages at deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root root unstable I think it's deb