[Rivet] Rivet 2.1.0 -> testing ~today?

[David Grellscheid]

Hi,

just one more thing: can we please fix the bootstrap before the release,
so that it only builds stuff that tarball users are going to need?

Thanks,

  David


On 31/01/14 17:52, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Anyone still using HepMC 2.5? ATLAS certainly isn't, and that version is
> several years old, so while I don't understand the new error, I think we
> could also reasonably drop guaranteed HepMC < 2.6 support.
> 
> Re. 2.1.0 release, I've made some more consistency improvements to the
> YODA interface, and added a YODA version check and the JADE_OPAL fixes
> to the Rivet trunk. There are now "a0" tarballs of each in the HepForge
> downloads areas. No-one complained about other blockers, so the other
> things on "the list" will be moved back to the 2.1.1 release target (and
> I/we should update the tracker again, since we've fallen behind in
> maintaining that -- I own up to having been using desktop sticky notes
> to remind myself of what's left to do!)
> 
> If there are no objections I will ask Genser to do a build integration
> test on these alpha tarballs, with the intention that our own release
> testing is done in time to allow a 2.1.0 release early next week. Sound
> good? Of course if you can try out the trunks of these packages now,
> before I contact Genser, that would be wonderful. Sherpas, you were the
> most enthusiastic about using the analyses that 2.1.0 will make
> available, so please test ;-)
> 
> After this release we aim for a 2.1.1 with the 5 remaining in-pipeline
> analyses as soon as possible. Help with these, so we can divide out the
> work, will be needed to avoid another month+ delay.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 31/01/14 14:55, David Grellscheid wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>>> One last thing: there is a Jenkins failure since the recent changes. I
>>> can't reproduce the make check failures and the reported output doesn't
>>> look "normal": a machine problem? We should know.
>>
>> It's an issue with HepMC 2.5 I have on that machine. If someone else
>> succeeds with HepMC 2.5 on Ubuntu, I'm happy to discard this error as an
>> outlier, since HepMC 2.6 and 2.4 work fine.
>>
>>   David
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