[Rivet] Rivet listening to socket

[Andy Buckley]

Andy Buckley wrote:
> James Monk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just been discussing with Frank and David how the Generator  
>> interface could be made more friendly.  We had the idea that Rivet  
>> could be started as a service listening on a socket for GenEvents.  We  
>> would then require of HepMC that they provide the facility to write  
>> GenEvents to a socket as well as a file.  Rivet would then analyze any  
>> events that were written to the socket as they arrive.
> 
>> Any comments?  Should this be included in some future version of Rivet?
> 
> I think it's a nice idea, and have toyed with it in the past. Not sure it's the
> most pressing need, but if MCnet people want the functionality, then I'm
> perfectly happy for someone to make a branch and make it work! (After this
> current beta is released, please ;) And please register it as a feature request
> on the HepMC Savannah tracker: HepMC will be a blocker on this, so the feature
> can't really exist until at least HepMC 2.5.0.

Oh, and please register it as an enhancement ticket on Rivet/AGILe 1.2.0 or
1.3.0 (or "Perfection"...), too!

Andy