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

[Andy Buckley]

On 06/02/14 01:45, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 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?!?)

Correction: it fails on HepForge login for that reason (can cmake be
installed, David? Yeah, I know: yuck ;-) )  lxplus is fine but the LCG
bootstrap could still do with a cmake auto-install (and dev-mode) ported
from the generic bootstrap.

Andy

> [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