[Rivet] Rivet tracker clean-up, etc. before 2.1.0 release

[Andy Buckley]

On 05/02/14 10:16, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I actually didn't get your original mail because I was kicked off the
> list again due to bounces (this still happens to me regularly)

Yep, the same happens to me, too. I see the list admin messages kicking
both of us off at the same time...

> but just saw in the archives that you asked:
> 
>> Frank, I've merged some extra changes into the bootstrap scripts, to move the autotools building into the dev mode only. When we release 2.0.1 do you want to remove mention of yaml-cpp completely, or just set INSTALL_YAMLCPP=0 by default?
> 
> I would do the latter, and remove it at some later point, just to make
> it possible for users to install 2.0.0 at all.

Ok. So it will require some special treatment to apply --with-yaml-cpp
if version < 2.1.0, otherwise without :-/

> One more point about the "getting started" for new users: would you
> mind replacing the URL of the "Get Rivet" link on the homepage such
> that it points to the GettingStarted wiki page? I think currently it
> might be a bit misleading for users to be transferred directly to the
> download page.

Done! Thanks.

Andy

PS. Latest YODA and Rivet "TEST" tarballs look good for me on HepForge
login, and a private Ubuntu machine of mine with no HEP libs on it at
all. However, the bootstrap scripts need to install cmake if it's not
found: it's needed to build Rivet due to the built-in yaml-cpp, and the
build from rivet-2-bootstrap-lcg currently fails on lxplus because there
isn't a system cmake installation (really?!?)
[I guess hg could be reverted to install on failed autodetection rather
than explicit request, since I don't think there is any version
sensitivity -- unlike for Cython.]
Once this is fixed, I think we are good to release YODA 1.0.5 and Rivet
2.1.0 :-)  Thanks for all the contributions!

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