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

[Andy Buckley]

Hi again Dima (& Anton),

Thanks for the feedback, and apologies for the longer than expected time
that it took to sort out this and a couple of other issues. I believe
the setting of YODA's LD_LIBRARY_PATH should now work (as should
auto-detection of the YODA PYTHONPATH) even when they are installed into
separate directory hierarchies. If not, the next version of YODA will
provide a script to help with environment setup. We also fixed a last
(?!) few minor bugs detected by the Herwig++ validation suite.

I have updated the Rivet-2.0.0rc tarballs with this new version: would
you please try to build this and see if it now works as expected? We are
then set to *finally* make this Rivet 2.0.0 release!

Thanks,
Andy


On 09/10/13 12:18, 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