[Rivet-announce] Rivet 1.1.3 released

[Andy Buckley]

Dear Rivet user,

I'm very (very, very) pleased to finally announce the release of Rivet 
1.1.3, which is now available for download from the usual place on HepForge:
   http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rivet

The step from Rivet 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 was meant to be a quick move to our 
new Python-based interface, but the result of the actual 6 month 
development time is a much more significant improvement of many areas of 
Rivet's physics, set of analyses, documentation, code quality, etc. etc. 
We unreservedly recommend Rivet 1.1.3 as the version to be used for 
validation and tuning for LHC or other purposes.

We have also made the first steps on the road to a more automated 
documentation and validation of Rivet itself, with the addition of 
"metadata" to Rivet's analysis objects. The analysis objects themselves 
can now be queried about their various attributes, leading to a 
much-improved manual:
   http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/rivet-manual.pdf
an analysis summary web page:
   http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/analyses
and validation of robustness of Rivet analyses between releases:
   http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/validation113/

The easiest way to get started with Rivet is as usual the "bootstrap 
script", available from here:
   http://svn.hepforge.org/rivet/bootstrap/rivet-bootstrap
This script has been rewritten to make it simpler and more 
user-friendly. We recommend downloading it and getting some basic 
instructions like this:
   wget http://svn.hepforge.org/rivet/bootstrap/rivet-bootstrap
   chmod +x rivet-bootstrap
   ./rivet-bootstrap --help
For most users, running just with
   ./rivet-bootstrap
should be sufficient to get up and running. If you have problems with 
the bootstrap script, please let us know and we will endeavour to fix it 
immediately!

We will next be working towards Rivet 1.2.0, with the primary intention 
of providing a more user-friendly histogramming system and, of course, 
increasing further our coverage of physics analyses useful for generator 
validation and tuning. You are very welcome (and indeed positively 
encouraged!) to get in touch and help us with implementing your 
favourite analyses ;)

Best wishes, and happy Riveting,
Andy & the Rivet team

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Durham University
0191 3343798 | 0191 3732613 | www.insectnation.org