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 suppo

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 u

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+

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 Autoconf-li

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Kevin, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 08:47 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 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 ab

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

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

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Frederic-Emmanuel, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:48 +0200, Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA wrote: > > Why not using scons ? Quite frankly, it's not good enough. First off, SCons reminds me of Imake (used by CERNLIB amoung others), in that it uses functions to declare various stuff. That initially made m

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

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin McCarty
Hi Christian,On 9/16/05, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some one suggested that the plugins should really live in it's ownsource tree, and I couldn't agree more.   However, as things are now,that's really not an option for ROOT.  The main thing being, that theplugins depend o

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

2005-09-16 Thread Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA
Hello The first reason, that MSVC (Microshit Visual C--) isn't supported by Libtool, still remains. People on this list might say why care about MSVC - we've got Cygwin. However, the fact of the matter is, that there's a large number of ROOT users out there that does use MSVC, and have dev

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: mozilla-imagezoom extension

2005-09-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
oops - sorry, I've forgotten to mention the main thing -- it is in Debian unstable already ;-) I was waiting till it gets there before announcing it ;-) So just apt-get update apt-get install mozilla-imagezoom If it doesn't work for some reason, use deb http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/ sid pe

Re: mozilla-imagezoom extension

2005-09-16 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-15 20:18]: > Just wanted to bring to your attention a new package I've packaged. It > is quite handy if you need a quick closer look at some images available > online. We find it quite useful for looking at the results produced by > FSL software, t