[Rivet] Rivet listening to socket

[Andy Buckley]

James Monk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just been discussing with Frank and David how the Generator  
> interface could be made more friendly.  We had the idea that Rivet  
> could be started as a service listening on a socket for GenEvents.  We  
> would then require of HepMC that they provide the facility to write  
> GenEvents to a socket as well as a file.  Rivet would then analyze any  
> events that were written to the socket as they arrive.

> Any comments?  Should this be included in some future version of Rivet?

I think it's a nice idea, and have toyed with it in the past. Not sure it's the
most pressing need, but if MCnet people want the functionality, then I'm
perfectly happy for someone to make a branch and make it work! (After this
current beta is released, please ;) And please register it as a feature request
on the HepMC Savannah tracker: HepMC will be a blocker on this, so the feature
can't really exist until at least HepMC 2.5.0.

Andy

PS. Very glad that Boost isn't the source of the other problem - I was going to
suggest looking in FastJet but thought that might be a bit judgemental!