[Rivet] installation

Frank Krauss frank.krauss at durham.ac.uk
Sun Jan 26 16:13:09 GMT 2014


Dear Rivet Authors,
I am just towards the end of my second hour running trying to install Rivet 2.0.  Admittedly, I am not half as geeky and nerdy as you are, so I accepted/anticipated that this would take me an hour.  But, please, can you explain the rationale why you use
cython, yaml, yoda, boost, fastjet & hepmc (I am sure i missed some!)
in a non-trivial way with non-trivial version specifications without providing a meaningful installation guide?  You certainly do not want the common people to use your code - is that it?  If you think this helps the user base you are mightily mistaken.  If you think I will continue to advertise your code, you're delusional - this is next to uninstallable as it stands now, with a pretty superficial installation help.
Best wishes
    Frank




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