Stakeholder meeting notes – 2018/01/18

Attendees:Lynn Garren, Herb Greenlee, Chris Jones, Tom Junk, Kyle Knoepfel, Evan Niner, Marc Paterno,  Gianluca Petrillo, Paul Russo

art 2.10.0

  • thread-safe database interface added
  • in-memory only data products are now supported
  • reseating of file suffixes during file renaming is now supported
  • TFileService is now allowed to switch output files
  • The –validate-config art command line option requests fhicl file validation and immediate exit.
  • macOS High Sierra, v10.13 with SIP disabled, is now supported
  • macOS El Capitan (v10.11) builds have been discontinued
  • e14 builds have been discontinued
  • expected release next week

macOS support

  • As of art v2.10 gcc will be replaced with clang 5.0.1 (c2) for macOS builds due to gcc being incompatible with macOS system headers.
  • There will not longer be any e-qualified builds for macOS.

 

Retiring nu qualification

  • The non-nu qualified ROOT will now be built with:
    • -Dmathmore=ON
    • -Dgsl=ON
    • -Dmysql=ON (client only)
    • -Dpgsql=ON
    • -Dpythia6=ON
  • g-2 and mu2e have agreed to these changes.

The release notes for art v2.10.0 will be up shortly at:
https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art/wiki/Series_210