Dear All,
I have made a little program which will draw the FFS and will,
event-by-event, draw the
detector hits, detector tracks and find and draw'spectrometer tracks'
and will show which of the slats on H1 was
hit. I'd like to make this publicly available so that other people can
look at (and probably greatly improve upon)
it. The problem is that there is no obvious place for such software, at
least not that I know of.
So...what is our policy regarding application software? Should
1. 1 each person make a directory under BRAHMS_CVS called, for
example, igb_apps
1. 2 we have a common applications directory, brahms_apps
2. 3 have both 1 and 2, i.e. a common directory for tested and
'certified' software as well as personal
3. directories for those of us who would like to share their latest
(though perhaps not fully tested) apps?
As I see it number one has the advantage that people will be more
willing to submit what they have done, rather
than spending weeks trying to polish it before making it public. This
is, of course, the downside as well, one
risks spending time using other peoples' crap code that they didn't
bother to test...
Number 2 has the advantage that only working code would be allowed, but
the disadvantage that folks may be slow
to submit, leaving each of us to make our own version of programs which
do (essentially) the same things.
#3 seems to me to be the best as it will allow each of us to make public
what we'd like to, and open software to
a larger audience earlier. I think that this will (ok, it could
possibly) lead to better software faster. Also, there would
be a place for tested and 'certified' software. This leads naturally to
a discussion of how one tests and
certifies software which I will gladly delay.
Best regards,
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