Re: Standard implementation of constant, copyright or not ?

2013-07-17 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
es not carry one explicitly? and so on. > Do > I need to do a clean room implementation ? Kinda hard to do a clean-room implementation when the standard tells you what it should be :-) Hope this helps. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| |

Re: problem with root 5.18

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
PROTECTED] On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:08 +0100, Antonio Salvucci wrote: > Hi list, > I have some problems with ROOT 5.18. I compiled this version using > debian > rules from Christian Holm Christensen debian repository (I'm using an amd64 > Debian OS). > In this version

Re: ROOT 5.16 in unstable?

2007-08-30 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
e, you can use the mirror at deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib for i386 and amd64 packages. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23,

Re: debian-science and science-* packages

2007-08-28 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
nce in what experimentalist and theorists use. Experimentalists will probably get the `-dev' packages much more often than the theorists. On the other hand we could also use the DebTAGS mechanism more aggressively. In fact, we could use the DebTAGS as a "voting machine&

Re: debian-science and science-* packages

2007-08-27 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Andreas, On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 08:04 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > > I think a "Recommends" would be better than "Depends", ... > See me previous comment about new cdd-dev tools. (They just tur

Re: debian-science and science-* packages

2007-08-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
end on what-ever implementation that exists in Debian of `IDL' (Interactive Data Language). For some odd reason, that language seems popular among astrologists - sorry astronomers :-) Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | --

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
hat Fortran90 dictates. In that case, it can get extremely hard to allow for such things as my "RAN" hack, or to provide predictable object names, like "getarg_". I may be wrong. Perhaps the gfortran developers have something say on this. Perhaps the `--std=legacy' optio

Re: Script polluted by DOS formatting

2007-07-13 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
char c = std::cin.get(); if (std::cin.fail()) break; if (c == 0302 || c == 0240) continue; std::cout.put(c); } return 0; } $ g++ foo.cc -o foo $ foo < dosfile > fixedfile :-) Yours, --

ROOT in Debian "experimental"

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
OOT. Bugs should be filed using Debians normal bug tracking system. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen

Ubuntu stable (edgy) and unstable (feisty) packages of ROOT 5.15/07 for i386 available.

2007-05-14 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi all, On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 20:27 +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi All, > > As the subject says, new (long overdue) Debian GNU/Linux packages of > ROOT are available from > > deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root >

Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) packages of ROOT 5.15/07 for i386 and powerpc available.

2007-05-11 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
These packages are target for the `experimental' distribution and it is our hope that they will be accepted soon into that distribution. From there, the road to the `main' distribution goes via a production release of ROOT (scheduled for June 27) and a clean built of that. Yours,

Re: 7 new messages from ladies for you

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ted (what > scientist has long term relations, except with their work?) so please > direct further questions on this matter to debian-user. ROTFL - that priceless :-) Thanks Brett for cheering up my day. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | ---

Re: Simulation software package maintainer is xmds, version 1.5-3

2006-11-24 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Christian, On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:05 +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:58:59PM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > Hi Christian, ... > I don't use that and I also have no install files, probably because I chose > to build a single

Re: Simulation software package maintainer is xmds, version 1.5-3

2006-11-23 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
bian/libxdms0.install: usr/lib/*.so.* debian/libxdms-dev.install usr/lib/*.so usr/lib/*.la usr/lib/*.a usr/include/xdms/* (Please read the dh_install man page). Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | ---

Re: exceptions in gnu c++

2006-11-06 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Paul, On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:34 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:51:15PM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > Hi Paul, ... > > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 14:29 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: ... > I have a new version of my program and I have switche

Re: exceptions in gnu c++

2006-11-05 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
u want to catch all exceptions, no matter the type, you could append _another_ catch block like catch (...) { std::cerr << "Caught unknown exception" << std::endl; } > suggestions? (like maybe a more appropriate list to ask?) A list dedicated to

Re: New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-30 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Charles, On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:50:39AM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen a écrit : > > > > Call for builders: If you have Debian GNU/Linux running on some > > architecture other than i386, I'd very muc

Re: New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-30 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Frank, On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:27 +0100, Frank Siegert wrote: > Hi Chistian, > > Christian Holm Christensen wrote: ... > As you were asking for feedback from Ubuntu users: Yes! Thanks. > Ubuntu Edgy (6.10): > Adding your mentioned deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list a

Re: [ROOT] New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-30 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Roland et al, On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:32 +0100, Roland Kuhn wrote: > Hi Christian! > > On 30 Oct 2006, at 08:52, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: ... > > Well, I guess it did, otherwise it shouldn't build :-) > > > Well, I had to install xbase-clients by hand,

Re: [ROOT] New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-29 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Roland, On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:01 +0100, Roland Kuhn wrote: > Hi Christian! > > On 29 Oct 2006, at 11:50, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > > Hi ROOT'ers and Debian Scientists, > > ... > > Call for builders: If you have Debian GNU/Linux running on so

New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-29 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
However, it should be possible to do that, as outlined on http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/rpm.html If I have the time one of these days, I'll make RPMs too. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | --

Re: cern software

2006-08-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Kevin, On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:40 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 8/8/06, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Anibal, > > > > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 16:03 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at

Re: cern software

2006-08-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Brett, On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 12:03 -0400, Brett Viren wrote: > Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > ROOT was close to hitting `main' for etch, but some unfortunate license > > problems prevented that. The upload to Debian is postpon

Re: cern software

2006-08-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
mailing list for more information, or visit the appropriate Wiki pages, at http://wiki.debian.org. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91

Re: ROOT on powerpc

2006-06-19 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
hi all, On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:31 +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi all, > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:55 +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > > Hi, ... > > You can find the packages there (it is not a repository): > > > > http://lehobey-rennes.dyndns.o

Re: ROOT on powerpc

2006-06-19 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
there (it is not a repository): > > http://lehobey-rennes.dyndns.org/root/ I'll download these and post them on the `normal' repository shortly. Thanks for building these Frederic. > and the build log in: > > http://lehobey-rennes.dynd

Re: root on ppc: 403 forbiden

2006-06-15 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
n your repository scripts? Probably, or I forgot to run it for ppc. Does anyone know of a good package to maintain a `local' repository based on pools? Something that should cause these kinds of silly errors? Thanks. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | --

Re: ROOT/gnuplot

2006-06-10 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi all, On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:35 +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:52:58AM +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:54:35AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 02:48 +0200 schrieb Christia

Re: ROOT/gnuplot

2006-06-10 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi all, n Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:01 -0500, Ricky Egeland wrote: > On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > > > Hmm, writing a GNUPlot-like front-end for ROOT, is about the sillyst > > thing I've heard in a long time. ... [cut] ... > > F

Re: ROOT/gnuplot

2006-06-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
+), writing a GUI, or do scientific work :-) Bad news is, that ROOT didn't make it to the `experimental' dist just yet, because of license (sigh!) problem in obscure places in the code. I'll update the Wiki soon, and any contributions are welcome. For example, does any one kn

Re: Usertags and debtags

2006-03-10 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ke tag LIKE field::astronomy AND NOT tag LIKE game::* which I guess some of the more dedicated tools can do. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 3

Re: Is there template for letters about software without licence ?

2006-02-02 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
such a letter :-) Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _|Denmark

Re: New source and binary Debian packages for ROOT.

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ight compiler - e.g., doing `update-alternatives'. > > This way, there is > > the greatest chance of getting the broadest user base. > > Heh, that is making a huge assumption. All software devel platforms > around here are etch, if not sid. But, anyways, since both

Re: New source and binary Debian packages for ROOT.

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ail (sent from my princeton.edu account), in > addition to causing libRooFit *not* to be dynamically linked against > libMinuit at build time. Which would be a great help. Ah well, ROOT should really split the libraries from the plug-ins, but sometimes backward compatibility weighs more heavy than

Re: [ROOT] On the ability of RooFit to use an arbitrary fitter plugin

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
the libroot package, or make libroot-minuit and libroot-minuit-dev. Making rootfit a plug-in package wouldn't work. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91

Re: FORTRAN character data (was: Re: FORTRAN common blocks)

2006-01-20 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
I good idea in my mind.Students need to know the basic concepts of programming, and they get that from Java. The other languages are harder to learn this from, as there are so many technical pit-falls, like memory allocation, argument aliasing, and what not. That said, I'd prefer not t

Re: New source and binary Debian packages for ROOT.

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Frederic, That was fast :-) On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 11:49 +0100, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > > I've uploaded new Debian source and binary packages of ROOT to > > > >

New source and binary Debian packages for ROOT.

2006-01-14 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
could build the packages with pbuilder (a chroot image with only the minimal set of packages installed to build ROOT), and everything went fine. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23,

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-14 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
d/r/root/root_5.09.01-2.dsc, > and the package is not visible when I visit the repository with firefox > (http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/pool/root/sid/r/root/), although it is > downloadable... Not so strange - there was a `index.html' in the directory, which contained

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-13 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Thomas, Sorry about the late reply - I was concentrating on ROOT. On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:05 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Hi, > Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2006, 14:30 +0100 schrieb Christian Holm > Christensen: > > If anyone has the possibility and are willing to try to compile t

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is root > dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 5.09.01-2 > dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture sparc > fakeroot debia

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Kevin, On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 1/11/06, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This last update had some problems as some of you've kindly observed. > > I've upload

Re: [ROOT] Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ror if you like. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _|

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Charles, On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:50 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:30:15PM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote : > > Hi ROOT'ers, Debian-Scientists, et al, > > Hello, > > > If anyone has the possibility and are willing to try t

Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi again, On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:30 +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi ROOT'ers, Debian-Scientists, et al, > > I'd like to inform you that I've uploaded new Debian ROOT packages of > ROOT version 5.09/01 for i386, unstable to This last update had some

New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable

2006-01-10 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
the ROOT developers. If anyone has the possibility and are willing to try to compile the packages on non-i386 platforms, please do so. If you succeed, we (Brett and I) can put them in the repository.If you fail, I'll like to know about it. Please send a build log. Yours, -- ___

Re: ROOT 5.08/00 (development version) for sarge on i386

2005-12-23 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
amd64. I don't want to go into religious wars on this, but perhaps we could agree to focus our effort a bit here. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Ph

Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
-CERN), as ROOT is now LGPL'ed :-) > Anyways, this project looks quite interesting, thanks for pointing it > out. I'll give it a spin, but I fear it's all rant, and little substance :-) It's good to remember though,

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Debian packaging so far are welcomed. > > > Also, if you need/want a distribution repository I can offer space on > > the one that currently distributes the ROOT debs. > > That would be wonderful! I'll take you up on that offer once I feel > the Geant 4 .debs are rea

Re: Random numbers generation

2005-12-07 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
if (default_seed) seed = 0; gsl_rng_set(r, seed); } else { ... } ... } Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2

Re: publication quality graphs

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
AfterImage - which is to say, PNG, PS, EPS, PDF, JPG, SVG, and even GIF. He, he, so you think I'm a ROOT zealot - well, in some sense you're right, but I think you'll have a hard time finding something that's more versatile and useful for numerical data analysis, and the like (tha

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

2005-09-18 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
ns evangelism to upstream (e.g. by emailing the root-talk > forum). The ROOT developers have already evaluated Scons. In fact, the comments I sent you were comments I originally sent to the ROOT developers. But, of course, if you believe you have good arguments,

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
be done by another tool in the near future). > > This sounds interesting. Are you willing to give a sneak preview? :-) Look in `cint/src/bc_*' and `reflex' in the ROOT source tree, or check out CINT from CVS (:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/user/cvs module cint). Yours, -- ___ |

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

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
latform independence are wrong. Finally, the fact that it's not standardised makes in very unattractive. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91

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

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
es to Autotools in the not so far away future, I think that would be real opportunity. Also, in that case ROOT would probably be able to use pristine CINT. Please, if you have more questions, bugs, flames, etc. on the ROOT packages for Debian, do not hesitate to write. I'll try to answer the best

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-15 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
-globus: debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address > [EMAIL PROTECTED] See above. > As you can see - packages need a bit of work and fixes before anyone > could introduce them into the Debian Please report any errors, mistakes, and the like that you may find - either to me

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-12 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
all you need to do is > echo "deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root root unstable" >> /etc/apt/sources.list > apt-get update > apt-get install libroot-dev libreadline-dev r

Re: Systems for writing a science app front-end

2005-08-28 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
erface to your standard simulation library. Please refer to the many threads on ROOT on this list for more on the status of ROOT in Debian. If you need inter-communication between processes, processors, and embedded software, you may want to consider something like DIM http://cern.ch/

Re: Annoucing ROOT Debian GNU/Linux 'sid' packages, apt repository

2005-08-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi ROOT'ers and Debian Scientist On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:55 +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi ROOT'ers, and Debian Scientists, > > I'm please to announce, that there is now an apt-get repository of ROOT > Debian GNU/Linux packages. Simple add th

Annoucing ROOT Debian GNU/Linux 'sid' packages, apt repository

2005-08-16 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
debian-root for more information. Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | - | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _

Re: ROOT and Debian

2005-08-14 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi again, I forgot to comment on a few things. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 09:08 -0400, Kevin McCarty wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 8/13/05, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > By the way, to answer a point you raised in this email on root-talk: > htt

ROOT and Debian

2005-08-13 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
sporting very old version of X, using the TTF extension isn't an option. However, I think they are working on it. Kevin, if ROOT changes the license, will you sponsor the packages? Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| |