[Rivet] Rivet 2.0.0rc (release candidate) for testing

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Anton and Genser,

We *finally* have a release candidate for Rivet 2.0.0! This has taken an
extraordinary length of time to make... but the testing was definitely
worth doing and it's the best Rivet yet. We hope to make the proper
2.0.0 release in the next few days, but it's best that we provide you
with a preview to test that we didn't break anything in the last few
updates! It works fine on my system, on lxplus6, and in our automated
build system, so hopefully there should be no problems.

Could you please run a quick test build, and a couple of analyses in
mcplots if you have a setup to use our YODA histogram interface already,
and let us know if you encounter any problems? The code to use is the
Rivet 2.0.0rc tarball from http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rivet , and
the new version 1.0.3 of YODA, from http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/yoda

If all goes well, we will release Rivet 2.0.0 this week, and shortly
afterward we will produce version 1.8.4 (the guaranteed last point in
the 1.x series) and 2.0.1, which will include equal sets of new analysis
codes from ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. Just so you know what is planned ;-)

Thanks again,
Andy & the rest of the Rivet team

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