[Rivet] Rivet 1.2.2 release soon (this week?)

[Andy Buckley]

On 22/06/10 09:53, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> good idea, thanks for pushing :)

;)

> I was planning to improve the writing-an-analysis experience for a first 
> time user a bit, and saw that you already did a major overhaul of the 
> WritingAnAnalysis page, thanks for that!

No problem!

> In that context I had two thoughts:
> 
> 1. Should we get rid of the plugindemo directory in favour of the new 
> properly documented rivet-mkanalysis and rivet-buildplugin?
> 
> 2. Should rivet-mkanalysis get an *option* to write the metadata into 
> the C++ file (like it's done now in plugindemo)? For plugin analyses 
> this might be useful to avoid having to edit more than one file (ok, the 
> .plot file, but that comes at the very end and is optional).
> It will also allow to use the plugin analysis with only 
> RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH set... at least I can never remember which other 
> paths (RIVET_DATA_PATH, RIVET_INFO_PATH, ...?) I have to set.

I rather like the idea of both -- the paths are indeed a bit confusing
(you may notice that I've added a couple of flags to rivet which set
both RIVET_{ANALYSIS,REF}_PATH) but not necessarily for this release.
But if you want to do either of these, please go ahead!

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh