[Rivet] agile and rivet tests in GENSER

[Andy Buckley]

On 23/04/14 11:58, kirsanov wrote:
>  Hello, Andy,
>  This e-mail probably was drowned in others during your absence.

Hi Mikhail, indeed! Please email rivet at projects.hepforge.org for
"impersonal" questions (I have added that developer list to CC)

> On 3/24/14 8:38 PM, Mikhail KIRSANOV wrote:
>>  Hello, Andy,
>>  We are now creating a system of physics tests in GENSER using agile
>> and rivet. In connection with this I have the following remarks:
>>
>>  1. agile does not use versions of pythia6 and herwig with .2 at the
>> end. This is OK from the point of view of physics, but not so good for
>> tests, where we would like to have a possibility to test all versions.

AGILe isn't actively maintained anymore, since the attentions of MCnet
(and ATLAS tuning etc.) are now on the C++ generators which don't need
an external steering program. But if you have a specific request or
patch, I can try to find time to put it in and make one more AGILe release.

>>  2. The script rivet-mkhtml on some of our computers for nightlies
>> does not find the program "convert", but this is not an error for it,
>> the status of the test is "passed", which can be misleading.

I've tried to catch this a bit better now. Let me know if the next Rivet
version works better.

>>  3. We add comment lines to the reference yoda files to keep some
>> information. I hope this feature will not disappear.

What feature? I think if you read a .yoda file into memory then write
out those analysis objects, then any extra lines starting with "#" will
be lost. But if by "comment line" you mean extra attributes like
GenserComment='Lorem ipsum dolor ...' on histograms, then it should
definitely be maintained and will be accessible in memory as well:
that's a key design feature in YODA's data objects.

Cheers,
Andy

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