[Rivet] Various things for Rivet

[cholm]

Hi Andy et al,

On 2017-08-07 18:19, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> It's summertime, so the Rivet core team are all over the place between
> holidays and workshops... we've not had free time to get going on this
> importing yet!

OK.  Let me know when and we can pick up from there.  I try to sync my 
fork on GitLab to your mercurial repo, so hopefully the import will be 
easy.

> I think the smoothest way will be to wait for Rivet 2.6.0 (which
> should not be a long wait), since there are so many structural changes
> in the default branch where that's being developed, relative to the
> 2.5.x releases.

The changes I've done are relative to the "default" branch - not the 2.5 
release branch.

> Once 2.6 is out, we have a stable platform for pulling
> in some of your additions. Some others overlap with the contents of
> the 3.0 multi-weight branch, so we'll have to be careful about how
> those are merged but I'm sure we can do it.

Right, I think the two efforts are orthogonal.

> Sorry about the blockers to progress... but we'll get there before too 
> long :-)

Sure, no worries.

> Andy
> 
> PS. Will you be at the HI jets workshop at CERN this month? I can't
> attend, but it's likely that Christian Bierlich will, and I'll be
> Vidyo'ing in as much as possible.

No, I won't be there.  However, Christian will soon be joining us here 
in Copenhagen - which we look very much forward to - so we'll have 
plenty of time to speak :-)

Yours,

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Christian Holm Christensen 
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