[Rivet] Binning information from a different analysis

[Andy Buckley]

On 24/01/11 13:55, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to write a MC analysis and use the same binning as
> DELPHI_1996_S3430090 for a couple of plots. What's the easiest way to
> accomplish this? The binEdges(string hname) function seems to look only
> at the current analysis (or I'm to stupid to use it correctly).

No, you're doing fine: it wasn't implemented to be flexible! For now I
think best is to make a reference data file for your new analysis, based
on the DELPHI 96 one. Or improve the API to make those booking functions
able to take the name of another analysis as an argument... I'm not sure
how I feel about that, but there is at least one use-case ;)

And now some opinions and suggestions about the near future...

Over Xmas and at the start of the month I made quite a lot of progress
on YODA. The next step is to make reading in of AIDA and flat data files
possible, so that we will be able to replace Rivet's current nasty hack
for extracting bin edges from AIDA XML!

I think a proper improvement of this booking should happen with the rest
of that histogramming switchover... my feeling is that we have a bunch
of LHC analyses which should be released asap in a version 1.5.0, and
then we concentrate our efforts on v2.0 with the new histogramming. Does
that sound ok?

Andy

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