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December 15, 2000:

Alpha release of HepPDT classes

An alpha release of the HepPDT part of StdHepC++ has been made.

HepPDT deals with particle properties which would be in the Review of Particle Physics, including provisions for decay data and decay models.

Ongoing work includes utilizing the HepMC classes as event and collision containers and actual particle representations in StdHepC++.

November 18, 2000:

New Package: GenericFunctions

A GenericFunctions package has been placed into the ZOOM and offical (CERN) CLHEP cvs repositories.

November 6, 2000:

Class Diagram for Particle Data Group part of StdHep

A UML class diagram of the proposed classes for ParticleDataTable and so forth in StdHepC++ is available for comments.

September 22, 2000:

ELerrorList Feature in ErrorLogger

There is now a mechanism for creating a destination which will form a list of all the ErrorObjs that are logged. The user code can later examine the errors and clear the list.

This new feature fills the last unimplemented capability in the original design. A release of just ErrorLogger should be cut in the immediate future.

September 12, 2000:

ZOOM release 00-09-12 has been rtagged and released.

Release notes may be found at http://www.fnal.gov/tf/zoom/Releases/release000912.html.
(Since this news item, that location has changed. The link has been updated.)

New Package: Allocator

More efficient memory mangagement, for cases where many objects of the same type will repeatedly be allocated via new.

ErrorLogger version 1.5

Major code cleanup.

HepTuple version 1.5

Works with latest ROOT release (ROOT 2.25).

ISOcxx version 1.2.1

Works with gcc compiler.

SpecialFunctions version 1.1

Added Hyberbolic functions and inverses, Li, Clebsh-Gordon.

Details in release notes for release 00-09-12 .

August 7, 2000:

Disposition of UnitVector

When the ZOOM PhysicsVectors package merges with the CLHEP Vector package, there was a question of whether UnitVector, a concept not necessarily wanted in CLHEP, would be retained.

The UnitVector class will be retained, so that existing ZOOM code need not change. Details of how this will be done, and why elimination of the class was rejected, appear here.

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