[Rivet] Minor bug in rivet-bootstrap [Re: Rivet 1.5.0 released]

[Ben Waugh]

Hi Andy, All,

Congratulations on the release, and especially on a "rivet-bootstrap" 
script that very very nearly works on our bog-standard SLC5 cluster.

There is only one minor bug that I have discovered so far. The generated 
rivetenv.sh sets PYTHONPATH to
   $INSTALLDIR/lib/python2.4/site-packages
but the Python libraries are actually in
   $INSTALLDIR/lib64/python2.4/site-packages

So just running Rivet out of the box gives the infamous "No module named 
rivet" error.

Cheers,
Ben

On 09/03/11 23:59, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
> 
> After another marathon of infrastructure improvements, new (LHC!)
> analyses, and bug fixes, we are finally proud to release Rivet 1.5.0.
> 
> Neat features include:
> 
>  * A variety of complete LHC analyses, from all the LHC experiments.
> More, please!
>  * Improved beam compatibility checking: the analysis beam
> specifications in the .info file are now used to determine whether
> incoming events have compatible beam types, and the beam energies are
> also checked.
>  * Much improved path handling for analysis plugin library and metadata
> file loading -- and user-callable functions in the C++ and Python APIs
> so that external packages can also use the same file searching mechanism.
>  * 2D histograms!
>  * New style options on compare-histos, with options to e.g. easily make
> histograms more suitably styled for inclusion in greyscale publications.
>  * Improved analysis metadata / code unification and more manual content.
>  * Formalised analysis categories, including new PRELIMINARY and
> OBSOLETE categories
>  * Run timeout options for use on troublesome batch farms.
>  * Plus many usability/UI improvements, and bug fixes in the framework
> and the standard analyses.
> 
> Source tarballs are available for download from the usual place, linked
> from our website at
> http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/
> and the PDF manual on the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0694) will be
> updated shortly.
> 
> We'll now be branching the development for a while: the 1.5 series will
> accumulate bug fixes and new analyses, while the framework development
> re-engineers some of the internal memory handling and histogramming for
> the legendary 2.0.0! Please keep supplying us with analyses and bug
> reports, and we'll try to keep releases coming at acceptable intervals :)
> 
> Thanks in particular to the http://mcplots.cern.ch team for finding many
> analysis bugs, and for using their nifty and Rivet-based system to
> validate this release for us and to find a few last minute issues: we
> hope you'll do it again!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andy
> 

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