<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">There's a *lot* of work behind the scenes in this release. The big stuff is </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">- 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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">- 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!)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">- 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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">- We can now write gzipped yoda files :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">That's all for now. If there are no objections to the release, I'll do it in the next day or two.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Merry Christmas!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Andy</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">* Obviously not. But no other obvious ones right now...</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow<br>Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow<br></div>
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