[Rivet] Rivet 2.6.0 release imminent

[Leif Lönnblad]

Hi Andy,

I was planning to include the HI stuff I was working on in Hamburg, but 
so far I haven't had any input from the Alica guys. The --preload option 
for the rivet script is in the default branch, however, and that was the 
only change I made to the core rivet stuff. So far it only works on 
Histo1D, but is should be easy to cover also the other cases.

My suggestion is to leave what is in the default for 2.6.0, allowing the 
ALICE analyses to be added in later 2.6.x releases.

/Leif

On 2017-12-19 22:49, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I think I've finally fixed all* the bugs that have been blocking the 
> Rivet 2.6.0 release, and merged in the latest batch of contrib analyses. 
> I'm just testing on lxplus6 and 7 now, but some feedback from testing on 
> your systems would also be great if you can try the default branches of 
> both Rivet and YODA -- or the new b1 tarballs in each of their download 
> areas.
> 
> There's a *lot* of work behind the scenes in this release. The big stuff is
> 
> - addition of a recursive composite structure to Particle, which enables 
> a lot of cool stuff and is taking us toward an even more unified picture 
> of particles and jets in the Rivet framework, although the latter is not 
> there yet.
> 
> - new analysis build system, making builds faster and more uniform, and 
> integration of contrib analyses *much* easier. (PS. Chris G, the code 
> quality of the ATLAS ones is broadly _excellent_ now. Just make them 
> fill in the @brief analysis summary in the class docstring!)
> 
> - lots of extensions to the filtering and functors system, and 
> improvements to the detector parametrisation & machinery. In particular 
> there's now a very lightweight way to pass multiple smearing/efficiency 
> functors in a list, and they'll be executed sequentially through a 
> uniform interface... which I suspect no-one actually needs, but people 
> claimed concern about its absence at Lunga a year ago, so here it is! 
> There be code magic here.
> 
> - We can now write gzipped yoda files :-)
> 
> That's all for now. If there are no objections to the release, I'll do 
> it in the next day or two.
> 
> Merry Christmas!
> Andy
> 
> ​* Obviously​ not. But no other obvious ones right now...
> 
> -- 
> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow
> 
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