[Rivet] AGILe 1.3.0 alpha0 for testing, and Genser HERWIG LHEF reading

[Anton Karneyeu]

Hi Andy,
I tested new version of AGILe with mcplots scripts and everything seams 
good (at least with pythia6 and alpgen+pythia6 interface).

Cheers,
Anton


Danila Tlisov:
> Hi Andy,
>
> We implement this version of AGILe to
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc20603/agile/1.3.0a0
>
> The testing now is ongoing.
>
> Best regards, Danila
>
> 28.06.2011 22:26, Andy Buckley пишет:
>> Hi Gensers and Riveteers,
>>
>> I've just uploaded an alpha0 tarball of the next AGILe release, 1.3.0,
>> to the usual place on the HepForge website:
>> http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/agile
>> Can you please test this (with the mcplots dev server if possible?)
>> and let me know of any issues? Thanks :)
>>
>> There are several nice features in this release-to-be, including fixes
>> in the HERWIG+AlpGen interface, making the HERWIG status codes behave
>> like the HepMC standard for better interaction with Rivet studies of
>> unstable hadrons, making it possible to read in POWHEG and other
>> events in LHEF format with PYTHIA and HERWIG, and a built-in way to
>> apply arbitrary parameter transformations. Hence the proper version
>> number change.
>>
>> I have been told by Simone Alioli, who provided the HERWIG LHEF
>> reading code, that the version of HERWIG installed in the Genser
>> repository has had the necessary user functions replaced by do-nothing
>> dummies, so it needs to be hacked to work with this new AGILe
>> functionality. Is there any possibility that the LHEF functions could
>> be added (I have examples) as standard, or another way provided to
>> allow this to work "out of the box"?
>>
>> Daniel W, I hope that we will have the AGILe 1.3.0 release quite soon,
>> and maybe we'll also want to modify the bundled HERWIG for LHEF
>> reading, so best to hold back a *little* on a new release of the VM to
>> avoid duplicating too much work!
>>
>> Thanks again, everyone!
>>
>> Andy
>>
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