[Rivet] analysis

[kirsanov]

  Thanks a lot, Andy,
  You are going to test it with and without c++11 before releasing?
                   Cheers, Mikhail

On 4/30/15 8:09 PM, Andy Buckley wrote:
> I have removed all these from the Rivet trunk. In fact, we already
> import the Boost assign comma override, which is C++11 safe (at least,
> if it wasn't you'd have seen a lot more problems) and so I just
> converted these to the somevector += 1,2,3,4; syntax. We'll make a
> release containing this in the not-too-distant future.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On 27/04/15 12:07, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> We are planning to remove uses of this Boost assign list_of from the
>> next minor Rivet release because of the C++98/03/11 compatibility issues
>> while using it.
>>
>> We'd like to move to requiring C++11, but aren't sure that this is an
>> option yet, both because of the build settings of the LHC experiments,
>> and because the system compiler on SLC6 isn't capable of many important
>> C++11 features. LCG and the experiments don't use the system compiler,
>> of course, but for what I think are largely accidental / cargo cult
>> reasons, there are many "vanilla" SLC6 systems in use, particularly by
>> theorists :-/
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 27/04/15 10:41, James Robinson wrote:
>>> Dear Mikhail,
>>>
>>> Sorry, the code was originally written using C++11 features, assuming
>>> forward-compatibility. It then got changed to use Boost for C++03
>>> compatibility. Hopefully, in future, we can either switch to using C++11
>>> throughout or Boost will patch this (known) ambiguity bug.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>>
>>> On 27 April 2015 at 11:37, kirsanov <Mikhail.Kirsanov at cern.ch
>>> <mailto:Mikhail.Kirsanov at cern.ch>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       Hello, Andy, James,
>>>       So, after some unforeseen education about the new c++11 syntax, the
>>>      patch looks like this:
>>>
>>>       /afs/cern.ch/user/m/mkirsano/public/rivet-2.2.1.patch
>>>      <http://cern.ch/user/m/mkirsano/public/rivet-2.2.1.patch>
>>>
>>>       It will not compile without c++11.
>>>       So, for the next rivet version one should introduce some
>>>      preprocessor if or rewrite the code in a simple manner, without boost.
>>>                                      Cheers, Mikhail
>>>
>>>
>>
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