[Rivet] HepMC in human readable format

[Leif Lönnblad]

On 2012-08-09 09:26, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Why on earth would Rivet have a "print event like PYTHIA" function? The
> access to the GenEvent object with all the structure is one function
> call away from Rivet::Event -- is that really "complicated and difficult"?!

Although I agree that it is not the responsibility of Rivet to have a
print function for HepMC, I imagine that it could be a good thing to
have print functions for the different projections in Rivet. This would,
of course, only be used for debugging purposes.

So I think Hannes has a point, in that someone who is new to Rivet,
trying to implement an analysis, might find it useful to be able to
debug their code using printouts of the projections (and one of the
"projections" is in principle the HepMC object itself). On the other
hand we have managed without these so far, and I haven't heard any
requests for this feature before...

Cheers,
Leif