[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r2095 - in trunk: data/plotinfo?src/Analyses

[Hendrik Hoeth]

Thus spake Frank Siegert (frank.siegert at durham.ac.uk):

> So count me as a user whose plots are probably going to break, because
> I would have a line in my make-plots configuration file which sets the
> correct kfactor for that process.

What percentage of our user community does that? How many would actually
know that the need to do that? How many would be considering a plot with
plain generator cross-section normalisation a bug (and that would be the
default without the lines in the .plot file), since they usually look at
the plot in a normalised way?

> And the users for who it really is going to break, e.g. for tuning,
> aren't going to be helped with your lines in the .plot file, are they?

No, unfortunately not. But those guys at Tevatron, RHIC and LHC who want
to have a look at some tuning and decide which parameter set they're
going to use for their production. Those people who make and look at
plots. And I guess that's the majority of our non-developer users, while
most (if not all) of those who want to do something automated with the
histograms are also developers and most likely know more about Rivet's
internals.

    Hendrik

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