On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:19 -0700, Paul F. Kunz wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:53:53 -0500, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> said:
> 
> > Andy Buckley wrote:
> >> Paul F. Kunz wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>>>>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:42:11 +0100, Andy Buckley
> >>>>>>>> <[log in to unmask]> said:
> >>>
> >>> - Minuit (C++ version).  There's no RPM file for this, altho I
> >>> could contribute one for their next replease.  I could also
> >>> include Minuit sources in the source RPM file and make it a
> >>> subpackage hippodraw-minuit.
> >>> 
> 
> > If he could provide the rpm, that would be best. He probrubly knows
> > more about what should be in it.
> 
>    Providing a source RPM for Minuit would be easy.   I would go with
> the ROOTified version as the non ROOT version is at its last release.
> In spite of being in namesapce ROOT, it has no other dependencies on
> any part of ROOT (yet).
> 
> >>> - ROOT.  Is there an RPM for ROOT?  When I log into lxplus.cern.ch
> >>> (which is SLC 3), there doesn't appear to be any ROOT installed
> >>> and no ROOT in the RPM database.  And if there were, it would be
> >>> compiled with gcc 3.2.3, which I can't use if HippoDraw gets
> >>> compiled with gcc 3.4 or later.  Of course, I could do like
> >>> Minuit.
> >>> 


>    This still leaves the question for people who want to use HippoDraw
> with the ROOT files.    I only need 5 libraries from ROOT and there
> corresponding header files.   Perhaps if there was a bare bones ROOT
> rpm available?   It might be that 90% of ROOT users use only 10% of
> ROOT anyway?

I have checked with the ROOT developers (again), and we should be able
to get full ROOT RPMs at least for SL(C)4. Still trying to get a
commitment to have RPM releases by default...

Regards
Jan