[Rivet] installation

[Andy Buckley]

On 27/01/14 20:42, David Grellscheid wrote:
> On 27/01/2014 18:30, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> But for what Frank S mentioned as an important need -- being able to
>> easily build pre-release code to run unreleased analyses
> 
> Here, we could document the following route as an initial stopgap:
> 
> a) build the latest tarball
> b) download the analysis .cc from the trac code browser
> c) run rivet-buildplugin on that .cc
> d) done, run your analysis
> 
> No need for end users to mess with Mercurial or dev-builds.

Yep, if the analysis code is stable, and doesn't require new features --
i.e. it's still caveat emptor and best to contact the list first to make
sure there are no nasty surprises, but I agree this is better than
setting up developer builds for end users and exposing them to all the
instability and complexity that comes with that. Even better is to get
the releases out on time!

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN