Re: contrib repository?

Valery Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:35:38 -0500


On 7 Aug 98 at 11:40, Fons Rademakers wrote:

> like Rene said, except for the standard ROOT examples and
> tutorials
> we don't yet have a real contrib area. However, since more and more
> code is produced for ROOT we would like to start a contrib area
> where you can submit tar's containing your classes and some basic
> doc.
>
> For this purpose I've created on the ROOT ftp server an incoming
> area (ftp://root.cern.ch/incoming) where you can ftp your
> contributions. After review they will be placed in
> ftp://root.cern.ch/contrib. All contribs will be summarized on a
> contrib web page for easy browsing. So the contrib procedure is:

I think we need some "formal" rule for the proposed contribution
area.

For example:

I hope we have quite a lot of Windows NT users of ROOT too.
Therefore for the sake of them the "contribution" must (???) be
checked with two different platforms (at least). I mean one UNIX
brand and Windows NT and contains the makefile (s) for both of them.

Of course it would be for the best to provide "examples" /
"tutorials" "html" and "test" altogether (otherwise the link to URL
from ExApplication is provided).

Any idea ?
Valery

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