To the ROOT team : Why not only support a G++ version of ROOT on the
systems where G++ is available (i.e. all Unix platforms) ?
This probably save you a lot of work, makes root.cmz
more compact and creates a more homogeneous environment.
Also bug tracing (e.g. differences in compiler behaviour)
would probabyl become more easy.
In addition one could then put effort in providing also
G++ versions on systems where this is not yet done
(e.g. HP-UX and Windows NT/95).
The G++ compiler is for free available for all supported
platforms.
To be short : why not make G++ as the compiler standard
for the ROOT project ?
This was just an idea of mine, and if there are some consequences which
make the above not feasable I would like to hear them, since we would like
to make G++ the standard (free) compiler for the ALICE software.
Cheers,
Nick.
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