[Rivet] xsection in rivet-nopy

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Hannes,

No, we're not going to add any more functionality to the rivet-nopy 
program... especially not any optional command-line features, which is 
why we moved to using Python in the first place. We don't have the 
resources to maintain a second command line interface, and I don't think 
it would anyway be a good idea for us to do so... I'm now even tempted 
to change the name to "rivet-debugging-hack-not-for-production-use" ;) 
If you really want, you can make your own command-line interface based 
on the rivet-nopy source, which is *very* simple, but it would be much 
better to get your installation working properly so that you can use all 
the rest of the Rivet processing scripts which are written in Python and 
only work fully if they can import the rivet interface module.

The Python interface works on CERN lxplus, on the Grid-deployed SL5 
nodes and on all the development systems I've tried. It should work ok 
on Macs -- we did some debugging that way last year, and our automatic 
build system continually claims that it works -- although I don't have 
regular personal experience of that. I'm not sure what's troublesome 
about the DESY system, but it *should* be possible to make it work, 
provided that the Python and GCC setup are compatible.

Andy


On 27/07/11 09:35, Hannes Jung wrote:
> Dear Andy
>
> thanks a lot for your reply.
> It's really a pity, since even with the new version 1.5.2b I am having
> problems running on macosx with python... so my work-around was using
> the nopy version, which worked fine....
> Is there a hope to have this option included in the future, since it
> always is a problem with the proper python version, even at desy on
> linux ... so this could be a workaround solution....
>
> Thanks a lot
> cheers
> Hannes
> On 27.07.2011, at 10:06, Andy Buckley wrote:
>
>> Hi Hannes,
>>
>> No, there isn't. rivet-nopy is only intended to be a debugging /
>> profiling tool (a simple way to run the Rivet library elements without
>> also getting information about the Python steering layer) which we
>> don't even install. It's not meant to be a functional equivalent to
>> the rivet command.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 27/07/11 08:44, Hannes Jung wrote:
>>> Dear Riveties
>>>
>>> is there a way to set the xsection when using rivet-nopy ?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Cheers
>>> Hannes
>>>
>>>
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Dr Andy Buckley
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Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh

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