Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)
Hi Brett et al,
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:40 -0500, Brett Viren wrote:
> "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> writes:
>
> > In case it slipped past people's notice, I just wanted to mention that
> > Cernlib's PAW data analysis program <URL:http://packages.debian.org/paw>
> > should work OK on Debian/AMD64
>
> Nice. One less reason to keep my cluster at 32 bits.
I take this opportunity to announce that there's also AMD64 packages of
ROOT available from
deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
> > On another note, I've found an interesting set of applications called
> > "OpenScientist" on the web: <URL:http://openscientist.lal.in2p3.fr/>.
> > It is GPL and apparently aims to be a competitor to ROOT (about which
> > the main OpenScientist author seems to have a bit of a chip on his
> > shoulder).
>
> Heh, ya' think?
Whow, that guy really _hates_ ROOT! Ah well, his problem.
> "OpenScientist is definitely NOT one million lines of intricated and
> unnecessary complicated home made code reinventing everything."
Now, I haven't looked at the code yet, but I don't see OpenInventor
really re-use all the third-party libraries out there, like GSL,
plotutil, gmp, liberis (WorldForge), GTK/Qt/WX and so on. Not that
ROOT really uses these either, which in my mind is a bad thing.
> "And we must point out that writing in C++, java or C# does NOT
> consist to put a ';' at the end of lines of a FORTRAN program."
Ha, he's got a point there though. Some of the oldest classes in ROOT
does suffer from Fortrantitis, and ROOT is definitely not done in a
modern C++ (not OOP - C++) way, which would have used smart_ptr<...> all
over, and design patterns more evidently.
> There are some other gems in there. They are funny because they are
> true!
Well, he's got one thing wrong - there'll never be a RootSoftInc
(the-lab-previously-known-as-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, that ROOT used to be the `under-dog', to
the extent that you could almost get fired from working on it ;-) Some
one once said revolutions always come from below, never above :-)
Yours,
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