[Rivet] HepMC Python module

[Andy Buckley]

James Monk wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2008, at 14:00, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 
>> James, what happened to the use of the new Python m4 macros that you
>> trialled while at CERN? I thought that had been committed? (I'd like  
>> to
>> get that implemented across the HepMC, AGILe and Rivet packages before
>> release, even though the Python interface won't be enabled by default)
> 
> It went in two weeks ago in changeset 943 (http://projects.hepforge.org/cedar/trac/browser/trunk/pub/autotools/python.m4?rev=943)

That m4 file just contained the macros taken from the macro archive
before: since most of it seems to have changed in that changeset, what
is the situation now? As far as I can tell, the use of the macros in the
Rivet and AGILe configure.ac files is the same, so I guess the old
macros are still in use?

If there are any custom macros (i.e. ones built by us, *using* the macro
archive ones), then they should be named AC_CEDAR_XXXX like the rest of
ours: that's much better than hacking what comes from the macro archive
as we can then pick up their bug fixes easily.

Andy