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