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Installation requirements could be more specific (ROOT version)

Open lobis opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Some colleages that were installing REST-for-Physics for the first time understood from the documentation that REST is compatible with ROOT >6 but it failed to install on v6.22.02 even though it was compield with c++17 support.

We should define a specific minimum version of root that is supported and also add it to our CI, atleast compile REST on this.

lobis avatar Nov 24 '22 10:11 lobis

In principle it should compile also with ROOT 6.22, why it doesn't?

We should try to encourage the use of a particular version, e.g. the one defined by the script ./installROOT.sh, as described here: https://rest-for-physics.github.io/installation.

Perhaps that documentation could be improved to emphasise and encourage the installation of a particular version, and particular compilation flags. Those found at the script installROOT.sh.

jgalan avatar Nov 24 '22 19:11 jgalan

Shall we close this issue?

jgalan avatar Nov 25 '22 09:11 jgalan