[Rivet] Rivet 1.8.1 and migration to YODA

[Andy Buckley]

Hi all,

It's been a while since we did much core Rivet development, but last 
week Hendrik, David and I did some more hacking of YODA and the Rivet 
branch that uses it, and we are nearly ready to move the YODA branch 
onto the Rivet trunk. It won't be perfect, but the YODA C++ and Python 
interfaces are now sufficiently complete, and able to read and write the 
new data format for a variety of data objects, that we prefer to put it 
in the firing line so that some of the rough edges and sharp corners 
will *have* to be polished off!

However, before making that branch merge we want to get a new minor 
release out to include the analyses added by Peter, Hendrik, and shortly 
Holger: I know we'll have the latest ATLAS inclusive jets analysis very 
shortly, and by the sounds of things there are several other ATLAS soft 
QCD analyses that we can expect within the week. So let's keep on 
prodding at YODA and the rivet-yoda branch until we have those analyses 
in place (to minimise the need for a 1.8.x maintenance branch) then 
release 1.8.1 and *finally* get YODA on track for a public airing.

Andy

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