Re: Software work - summary report

From: hagel@comp.tamu.edu
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 11:17:41 EDT

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    Hello,
    Responding to Ian's questions (at least some of them).  I have removed
    the incompatibilities of BRAT with root v2.25.02.  I have verified that
    brat compiles under both 2.24.05 and 2.25.02.  So I am using 2.25.02
    full time right now to discover whatever remaining inconsistencies there
    might be.  If you feel courageous, you should also do that and give me
    feedback.  I would, however, caution against using 2.25.02 and
    programming some of the neat new features of 2.25 as we are still
    heavily using 2.24 and that would make us non-backward compatible.
    
    As far as the reorganization, I completed at 12:30am Saturday morning
    the first iteration of all of the makefiles and linkdef files of the
    online part of the reorganized brat.  This will continue to progress and
    at some point I will begin to use the new one and will release it when
    we decide that things are stable.
    
    Kris
    
    "I. G. Bearden" wrote:
    
    > videbaek wrote:
    >
    >> To: brahms-dev-l
    >>
    >> From: FV
    >
    > Thanks for the update!
    >
    >>    * The Brat and related applications should be updated regularly
    >>      (daily). Konstantin will implement this. The afs /opt/brahms
    >>      will be updated for a "current" version. The pro and new will
    >>      be handled 'manually' and will correspond to tagged versions.
    >>      If a daily update fails e-mail with offending errors will be
    >>      send to the dev-l list. Both Linux and Solaris version will be
    >>      handled this way.
    >>    * Bugs should be reported to the dev-l list. Will not use the
    >>      bug-report suite.
    >>
    > These both sound good.
    >
    >>    * There are some incompatibilities with the new Root version
    >>      2.25. The default setups should be with root 2.24
    >>
    > I have noticed this, too bad it was after installing the new Root
    > Version 2.25/02.  Is there any short term
    > desire to remove the incompatabilities?
    >
    >>    * Of high priority is the fact the event sizes are very large.
    >>      Lots of this is caused by MTP1 data (50-60kB), but other
    >>      contributors are a) keeping raw unpacked data b) on suppression
    >>      of empty TDC channels etc.
    >>    * Data objects should be finalized - this in particular to global
    >>      detector rdo data, tracking data and PID data. This should be
    >>      done through a consensus process.
    >>    * We had a discussion on eventnodes vs events. Analysis modules
    >>      should always deal with nodes while i/o deals with events. This
    >>      could possibly be changed and the overall event header
    >>      information made available by the EventManager.
    >>    * Kris is making good progress in the re-organization of the brat
    >>      directories. The main effort is making new Makefiles and
    >>      checking these out. The new structures are updated via scripts,
    >>      thus the switchover once a decision day is made can be made
    >>      smootly.
    >>
    > Is there any estimate as to when this might occur?  Is the time scale
    > short enough that one should hold off on
    > updating, or not?
    > thanks again for the update,
    > Cheers,
    >
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    > | I.G. Bearden                                                         |
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