User Environment Breakout Session

Attendees:  Jim Chiang, Dave Davis, Marco Frailis, Berrie Giebels, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Heather Kelly, Cathie Meetre, Bob Schaefer, Alex Schlessinger

Imaging/Plotting Tools

Bob Schaefer gave a nice talk:
http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/sciencetools/workshops/june02/slides/Plotting_packages_3.pdf

Learning from Other Missions

Berrie suggested we could learn from Integral, which apparently uses a PERL interface to ROOT graphics. 

Open Issues

Whether or not we use Gaudi as our framework for the analysis environment would have some implications on our decisions concerning the user environment.  We are looking forward to an upcoming study by the SAS  that will help determine the feasibility using Gaudi in this context.

User Interface Requirements

We discussed potential requirements for a user interface.  This list is not complete and does not represent final decisions.  The discussion will certainly continue.

Simple and Easy to use
    Parameter files ex) pfiles
Flexibility / extensibile by users
Access to intermediate results (sanity checks)
Scriptability / session logging
Configurable plotting for displaying results
Coordinate system choice
Online Documentation
    Printable - ex) pdf
    searchable
Exportable data
Interactive Graphics
Informative Error Messages
Graceful error handling
    ex) Python allows user-level exception handling
Log Exceptions - error logging
prix fixe le menu    a la carte
Installation Test Suite
Operating System level command line
Integrated Environment with GUI and command line ex.) IDL

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