Re: Version 2/08 (apologies)

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:12:37 +0200

Carlos Lacasta wrote:
>
> Dear rooters,
>
> I wanted to send my apologies for my previous mail complaining about the
> just released version of ROOT. I was not very polite and I guess I was
> still under the effect of seeing half of my jobs crashing... I have to
> say that after rebuilding my private libraries everything worked as
> before.
>
> However I would like to ask whether the root users could be warned a few
> days in advance whenever a new version is going to be released
> (specially if the new one substitutes the old one). That could avoid
> problems of that kind.
>

Carlos,
You are using the version of Root stored under AFS. So far, we had
only the latest version of the system under AFS for a few systems.
It is our intention to have a scheme with old/pro/new as soon as
possible. So far, we had a space problem in the AFS NA49 quota.
I will try to install this mechanism for the next version.

We also hope to provide Makefiles for whose intending to recompile
Root with different options (debug, etc) with the next iteration.

Apologies if you had to suffer from our tough procedure when releasing
new versions so far.

We strongly recommend introducing dependencies on the Root include
files in your own Makefile.

Rene Brun