[Rivet] Rivet 1.x update

[Andy Buckley]

On 28/11/13 09:49, Frank Siegert wrote:
>> Despite having said that we were ready to release Rivet 1.8.4, I decided
>> that it will probably smooth the transition to 2.x if we provide some
>> behaviour changes in the AIDA version to match YODA version behaviours.
>> The main one of these is the change to allow the W/ZFinders to exclude
>> hadronic decay photons (as experimentally calibrated) from dressed
>> leptons definitions.
>>
>> I made this change on both the 1.x and 2.x branches over the last couple
>> of days, along with some math utils / ParticleBase extensions and
>> further W/ZFinder constructor changes for the 2.x branch, with the
>> hadronic photons now excluded by default. It'll need a validation run
>> through mcplots before releasing the final 1.x version, but I'm glad
>> that this feature addition is now in there -- it will reduce
>> complaining/demanding another 1.x, and ease the migration work for
>> analyses that the experiments are currently writing based on the AIDA
>> version.
>>
>> However, since there are API and behavioural changes this can;t be the
>> planned version 1.8.4, so I suggest we call this one Rivet 1.9.0: okay?
> 
> Sounds fine to me (I'll also get back to your mail about the W/ZFinder
> details in parallel).
> 
>> I'll send this for testing by Genser/mcplots tomorrow, but will hold
>> back on releasing until we have an ATLAS decision about this new ttbar
>> analysis.
> 
> I'll take a look at the analysis today, and if Roman/Kiran will then
> quickly run it through the corresponding MC samples on the Grid then
> this should hopefully quick.

Ok, thanks. In anticipation of it being ok'd I will merge it into the
AIDA branch today/tomorrow. I made a 1.9.0.a0 tarball last night and
Dima is running a build test in Genser already.

>> PS. I worked out how to enable commit/push emails from the hg server. If
>> you want to get these, you can edit the .hg/hgrc file in the
>> public/rivet repo directory on the website: the list of email addresses
>> is quite obvious. I think maybe better that people explicitly subscribe
>> themselves for now rather than sending them to a mailing list.
> 
> Is that the reason why I get the following messages after hg pull
> since a few days?
> 
> remote: not trusting file /hepforge/hg/rivet/public/rivet/.hg/hgrc
> from untrusted user buckley, group rivet
> remote: not trusting file /hepforge/hg/rivet/public/rivet/.hg/hgrc
> from untrusted user buckley, group rivet

No, I think they are unrelated. I got similar messages a while ago when
using an hg repo that David G had put in his home directory: maybe a
permissions issue, David?

Andy

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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN