[Rivet] [Professor] Rivet/Professor/generators VM

[Daniel Weyh]

Hi all,

Am 28.06.2011 um 17:44 schrieb Andy Buckley:

> On 28/06/11 16:37, Daniel Weyh wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>> 
>> it actually is (was?) online (a bit hidden in the Professor download listing) - it's pretty much the version I presented to you in Geneva.
> 
> Aha... I didn't notice, since I just need to "svn up" to get the Professor updates ;)
I thought putting it in svn was a bad idea ;-)

> 
>> There was some (next to no) discussion about how to improve, what to take in/out (sherpa, pythia8, alpgen, idontknowwhat?) and that Hendrik already had a VM... and the discussion somewhen stopped.
>> I'm sorry I missed to ask for further development during the Professor phone meeting last week.
>> 
>> If all agree I'd try to create a new VM with the new Rivet, compress it, ... and push it to somewhere on the net.
> 
> Sounds good to me! As David has said, having Herwig++ and Pythia 8 in addition to Sherpa would make it a very useful system for use in a summer school in September, so I think they are worth putting in. If the sources are removed, as I think you were doing, they hopefully won't add an enormous amount to the current size.

I assume the "Japan school" is the one in September or at least not next weeks or so, as I don't see a chance to get it done.
So, is there any constraint on the time frame or is there no hurry (= I have at least 2 weeks)?

(I remember our discussion about maintaining... and I think I have to set it all up again once more... ;-) )

IIRC I tried to compile Pythia8 and Herwig++ once and didn't get it... was my very beginning with this generator stuff and by now I'm not sure where to start from (source, agile-genser-setup,...).
If there's any information which would make my life easier, don't hesitate to write, otherwise I will just try my luck and ask when I get stuck. 
And, oh yeah. If there's anything else you want in there, please notice before I repack the VM, which is quite a weird procedure...


Cheers,
Daniel

PS: Professor 1.2 or HEAD (with generic interpolations ;-) ) or both?