[Rivet] AIDA branch closed (gzip next...)

[Andy Buckley]

Hi James,

You can also do this "non-invasively" via zlibc and LD_PRELOAD, which
avoids the Boost wrangling... but if you like it and it's disabled by
default then please merge your gzip branch on to the default branch and
we'll put this feature out with v2.2. I will direct user complaints to
you :-P

Andy


On 21/05/14 18:34, James Monk wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> The idea was always that it would be off by default, unless you enable it, in which case you’d better have the compiled library.  Alternatively, it could enable itself if it finds the compiled library.
> 
> I’ve found it pretty useful though - the combination of gzipped files and HepMC filtering means storing events becomes worthwhile again.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> On 13 May 2014, at 17:10, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The end of an era... I have closed the 2012-06-aidarivet branch in our
>> hg repository!
>>
>> Next step in the clean-up is to do something with the "gzip" named
>> branch: James, is this "production-ready" or will it be a while before
>> it is ready to go live?
>>
>> Since it involves tying us to a Boost compiled library, which in my
>> experience can be hell to get working on all platforms, I would really
>> prefer to not enable it without an explicit switch which comes with a
>> Caveat Emptor warning... unless you promise that it is super-robust ;-)
>> If it's not near production readiness then it would perhaps be better
>> to clone that branch into a separate private development repo and close
>> the gzip branch on the main repo: let me know what you want to do.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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