Core Minutes 6/29/2004  

Present:    Joanne Bogart, Jim Chiang, Richard Dubois, Zach Fewtrell, Warren Focke, Marco Frailis, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Navid Golpayegani, Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka, Heather Kelly, Michael Kuss, Matt Langston, Pat Nolan, James Peachey, Robert Schaefer, Alex Schlessinger, Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

• Tech Writer: (Richard) He starts next Tuesday.

• VRVS: (Richard, post-meeting) SLAC now has its own reflector.

• Science Tools status: (James) See his summary of newsworthy Science Tools packages. Of particular interest:

  • tip now handles images
  • st_app is a place to put common initialization, etc. for Science Tools applications
  • sane is a placeholder for now.

  Requests for enhancements, etc., concerning any of these packages are hereby solicited.

  (Richard) What about scripting?  (James) It's on the list (follow the first link; under User Interface see item UI4 Command line interface) but is not in the cards for DC2.

• MRvcmt: (Riccardo) Bari was an opportunity for input from users..which they did not fail to take. He and Marco are planning a redesign which eliminates many of the buttons in the left pane, leaving more room for the package list. No functionality will lost; it will be available from the menu bar. Still working on icon choices..  Newly-implemented features (still with old look) include:

  • Syntax highlighting for warnings and errors during compilation. If you double-click on the highlighted area, the source will appear in an editor window (currently only emacs; will add ability to choose editor in future)
  • Choice of tags when you do a checkout

  There is a known bug on Windows: clean cleans everything, rather than just selected package! So far Riccardo is stymied.

• FRED distribution: (Navid, Riccardo)  Interface packages for external libraries needed for FRED are now in LATEST (late update from Riccardo: the CORBA library he supplied has problems; a new one is on the way). Riccardo still needs to regularize access to other needed packages, like HepRepSvc.

• Binary code distribution: (Navid) The Release Manager now packages up binaries (shareable libraries and executables, but not .o or .a) from packages and puts them in ftp space. Also included are scripts so that users downloading the packages can run the executables outside of the CMT environment. (Richard) How about ETA for Windows? (Navid) Soon after Windows RM builds are running.

• Pipeline: (Richard for Dan) Dan will meet with I&T folk to show them what they need to supply. He has been struggling with OPUS, even though he is at this point making very little use of it. Navid will see about replacing the remaining bits of OPUS with scripting; this should simplify Dan's development environment considerably.

• rdbGui: (Joanne, Marco, Riccardo) We're just about ready for (*gasp*) a user! Documentation is well on its way. Riccardo added the last essential function (ability to redo last-inserted record). Marco just added a copy function for query results. fox library builds suitable for Linux and Windows will be available from SLAC ftp space shortly.

• ROOT for calibration data: (Joanne) XML clearly won't do for the zillions of ToT constants, nor is it optimal for typical Calorimeter calibrations. With Heather's help she's getting started on a new package to contain ROOT classes for calibration data. 
• More LAT integration support: (Heather) She made a new EM tag, v3r0402p17. System test for LDF converter is in progress.
• G4 upgrade: (Tracy) He, Riccardo and Francesco had some discussions last week in Bari about 6.2, then not quite released. It now is released. After some trials and tribulations, Tracy has managed to build it on Windows and can run it with our stuff.  Now that the question of whether we can run it has been at least partially answered, there still is the question of whether we should, and if so, when to do the upgrade. We need to do some validation.

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