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

[Andy Buckley]

On 09/10/13 15:59, Anton Karneyeu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> thanks for the new version!
> 
> Unfortunatelly mcplots is not yet started to test/use new Rivet2 and it
> will come not early than in a few weeks. So, please don't wait for
> mcplots feedback this time.
> 
> And for 1.8.4 we will start to use it as soon as it will be installed
> into GENSER repository.

Ok, thanks Anton (and Dima): all feedback is useful and it's good that
we caught this last (?!) bug.

> I tried Dima's steps and the results is the same.
> It seems the YODA library lookup path is missing in the rivetevn.sh,
> doing the definition manually helps:

Aha, very good! Thank you, I'll fix that!

Cheers,
Andy


> ==========================
> $ export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/afs/cern.ch/cms/CAF/CMSCOMM/COMM_ECAL/dkonst/GENSER/lcgcmake-install-preview/MCGenerators_lcgcmtpreview/yoda/1.0.3/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> 
> $ rivet --help
> Usage: Run Rivet analyses on inputted events from file or Unix pipe
> 
> Examples:
>   rivet [options] <hepmcfile> [<hepmcfile2> ...]
>   my_generator -o myfifo & \ rivet [options] myfifo
> ....
> ==============================
> 
> Cheers,
> Anton
> 
> 
> On 09.10.2013 14:18, Dmitri Konstantinov wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> I have tried to run rivet 2.0.0rc from temporary installation place:
>>
>> source
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/gcc/4.8.0/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/setup.sh
>>
>> cd
>> /afs/cern.ch/cms/CAF/CMSCOMM/COMM_ECAL/dkonst/GENSER/lcgcmake-install-preview/MCGenerators_lcgcmtpreview/rivet/2.0.0rc/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/
>>
>>
>>
>> source ../rivetenv.sh
>>
>> ./rivet --help
>>
>> And it says:
>>
>> -bash-4.1$ rivet --help
>> The rivet Python module could not be loaded: is your PYTHONPATH set
>> correctly?
>>
>> While same procedure for rivet 1.8.3 works for me.
>> (
>> /afs/cern.ch/cms/CAF/CMSCOMM/COMM_ECAL/dkonst/GENSER/lcgcmake-install-preview/MCGenerators_lcgcmtpreview/rivet/1.8.3/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/bin/
>>
>> )
>>
>> For both cases my initial (before rivetenv.sh execution) PYTHONPATH was
>> not defined.
>>
>> Could you please take a look?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Dima
>>
>>
>> On 10/9/13 12:00 PM, Dmitri Konstantinov wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> Great news! :)
>>>
>>> From genser side we have added Rivet 2.0.0rc and YODA 1.0.3 to our
>>> preview configuration.
>>> It was successfully compiled for x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt,
>>> x86_64-slc6-gcc46-opt, x86_64-slc5-gcc46-opt, x86_64-mac108-gcc42.
>>>
>>> Though I have not tried to run rivet itself.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>        Dima
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/9/13 1:56 AM, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>>> 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