Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> writes:

> IMO it would be ideal for Root to use an existing version of Cint but it
> will be faster to upload Root source that builds its own Cint binary (in
> the "root-cint" binary package).  Also I don't know if Root is
> compatible with "pure" Cint.

ROOT uses Cint through its library interface and via a "rootcint"
executable.  The "cint" executable isn't used, afaik, so if a pure
Cint package is ever resurrected, it shouldn't conflict.  I doubt that
ROOT can work with anything other than its own Cint.

-Brett.