[Rivet] Python3 fix

[David Grellscheid]

Hi Jerry,

the attached versions of the release should compile cleanly and pass my
initial checks with python3, but I haven't gone into great depth. Please
let me know any issues you encounter, I'll get them fixed as soon as I can.

See you,

  David


On 15/01/18 17:23, Jerry Dormans wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
> 
> I would be very interested in digging deeper into the python3 issue. Is 
> there any way I could get access to the fixed version once the configure 
> problem is solved? I would be happy to share my experiences with the 
> python3 version and report any problems that I might experience.
> 
> I would also be happy if you could provide me with the link to the 
> prerelease version.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jerry
> 
> On 01/15/2018 03:22 PM, David Grellscheid wrote:
>> Dear Jerry,
>>
>>> 1) Do you expect to produce a python3 interface at some point? This is
>>> rather important, as I work on a framework based on python3.
>> Rivet 2.6.0 and YODA 1.7.0 are our test balloons to get full py3
>> compatibility. At the moment, the configure check fails for a silly
>> technical issue that we overlooked, which I'll fix this week. Once you
>> get past that, the rest of the code should already be compatible. It
>> would be great to have another user on py3 and I'm very keen to sort out
>> any remaining problems!
>>
>>> 2) I have been told, in conversations with Daniel Maitre and Stefan
>>> Hoeche, that a Rivet extension which can properly handle NLO Ntuple
>>> files (to produce correct real-radiation estimations of statistical
>>> uncertainties in computed observables) was in the making.
>> This is our long standing almost-but-not-quite-ready feature, I'm
>> afraid. We have a larger developer meeting later this spring and I
>> really hope that that will be the final hurdle to pass for the NLO
>> version. If you're interested, I can send you a link to a prerelease,
>> with all the caveats that implies (definitely not yet production-safe)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>    David
> 
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