[Rivet] New AGILe and Rivet versions to test

[Andy Buckley]

Hi again Anton,

Apologies for the late response: I finally got time today to act on your 
findings.

The patches were very helpful and I've added (hopefully) equivalent 
fixes to the code.

For the LHCb analysis, I didn't find anything in my mail archive 
agreeing to hide the lifetime-lookup error messages, but I've added a 
protective check to the analysis which means that it'll only print an 
error if the offending PID is a hadron: this should eliminate the 
warnings about reggeons from herwig++ (although I would still be 
concerned that you had status=2 Reggeons in the event record! David?)

On the last issue (log axis settings in aida2flat output), there is no 
support in aida2flat for histogram properties other than the title and 
axis labels: they are only used in the output for make-plots produced by 
compare-histos, although I appreciate that the two flat formats are very 
similar. This can be improved when we finally release a version of Rivet 
with our new histogramming package, where the data objects can hold 
arbitrary annotations as in the make-plots format. Right now I would 
have to significantly change the lighthisto module to add LogX/Y 
annotation support, and it would just open the floodgates for requests 
for all the other make-plots features that we don't support in 
aida2flat. Hope you can work around it.

I've made a new tarball and uploaded it to the usual place. It should 
work fine at runtime, but if you could just test the compilation 
(without patches) and let us know if the fixes have worked, that would 
be great. Cheers!

Andy


On 06/03/12 23:44, Anton Karneyeu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> tests are finished fine, there are no any serious problems. Just want to
> mention a few issues:
>
> - Two patches are necessary to build Rivet on macosx 10.6 platform:
>
> Patch to build LHCB_2011_I917009.cc:
> https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/GENSER/browser/GENSER3/pkgsrc/MCGenerators/rivet/trunk/patches/patch-ba?rev=7878
>
>
> Patch to build pyext:
> https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/GENSER/browser/GENSER3/pkgsrc/MCGenerators/rivet/trunk/patches/patch-pe?rev=7878
>
>
>
> - There are still "Could not determine lifetime" error messages from
> LHCB_2010_S8758301 analysis. Please, see attached email for original
> issue report. It was agreed to mask particles which leads to error
> messages, but probably forgotten to be implemented in the analysis code.
>
>
> - There is mismatch in the field LogY of PLOT section of .dat files
> produced from reference .aida file and corresponding .plot file. For
> example for ATLAS_2010_S8894728:
>
>    contents of
>
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/rivet/1.8.0alpha0/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/share/Rivet/ATLAS_2010_S8894728.plot
>
>
>    and contents of *.dat files from
>      aida2flat -s
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/rivet/1.8.0alpha0/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/share/Rivet/ATLAS_2010_S8894728.aida
>
>
> See also attached script logy.sh which demonstrate the issue on lxplus.
> The last issue is not specific for Rivet 1.8.0a, was also present in
> previous versions.
>
> Cheers,
> Anton
>
>
> 28.02.2012 0:43, Andy Buckley:
>> Hi Anton & Peter,
>>
>> We have new alpha/beta tarballs of AGILe 1.4.0a and Rivet 1.8.0a to test
>> -- can you please work your customary and much appreciated mcplots magic
>> to make sure we didn't foul anything up?
>>
>> The tarballs are in the usual places:
>> http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/agile
>> http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rivet
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andy


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