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June 3, 1999:

The following release was announced June 3, 1999:

HepTuple beta release: v1.4.9; cvs rtag V01-04-09

New Features in release:
Fixed Root manager's treatment of column arrays
Fixed Root manager's director ymanagement
Cleanup of inappropriate CXXCFLAGS in makefile

Platforms checked:
KAI on d02ka with D0 environment
KAI on cdfsga with CDF environment
KAI under RedHat 5.0 on cdfpca with CD+
MSVC++ 5.0 under NT with D0 environment
egcs 1.1.1 on fnpat1
Dependencies:
ZMutility v1.3.7 or higher
Exceptions v1.2.1 or higher
Cernlib library must be linked in for HBOOK
Optional:
• histo v5_0_3a0 or higher
• root v2_21_08 or higher
Restrictions:
There is a bug in HBOOK with regard to columns of doubles in N-tuples:
These are NOT portable among platforms with different endian-ness (SGI vs Intel/Dec). This inconvenience will NOT be present with the Histoscope manager.
It is currently impractical to do static instantiation of nTuple and histogram objects.
Warning:
In a future release the HBOOK part of the HepTuple library WILL be separated from the manager independent part. Software using the hbook part of HepTuple will need to add -lHBookHepTuple to their link lines.
The ROOT filemanager uses TTree to implement HepNtuple. When reading a file with TTree that has not been created by HepTuple, we currently ignore ALL branches that have been created with a TObject. The only branch creation supported is the TTree::Branch call that take a leaflist as an argument. See Coming soon for more information.
Coming soon:
• split of libHepTuple.a in a generic library (still libHepTuple.a) and a HBook specific library libHBookHepTuple.a
• Histogram arrays web documentation.
• Ntuple for the Root filemanager documentation.
• Upgrade the ROOT filemanger to be able to elegantly support branches with TObject.
  In the case of split it will see it as a block of elementary type. A new column type will also be introduced and support only by the ROOT filemanager that will let the user create Columns of TObjects.

ZMtools v1.1, cvs rtag V01-01-00

Compatibility with KAI's --thread_safe option.
Platforms checked:
KAI on d0chb with D0 environment
KAI on cdfsga with CDF environment
KAI on Redhat 5.0 (cdfpca)
MSVC++ 6.0 under NT
Limitations and dependencies:
ZMutility v1.4 or above. Exceptions v1.2 or above.

ZMutility v1.4, cvs rtag V01-04-00

Support for KAI's --thread_safe option.
Platforms checked:
KAI on d0chb with D0 environment
KAI on cdfsga with CDF environment
KAI on Redhat 5.0 (cdfpca)
gcc on cdfsga (6.2)
MSVC++ 5.0 under NT
MSVC++ 6.0 under NT
Limitations and dependencies:
STLUtility v0.0.8.1 or above.
Dependent packages need to add to all their GNUmakefile: include SoftRelTools/arch_spec_STL.mk

CLHEP v1.3.9, cvs rtag V01-03-09

Minor tweaks to let packages compile on a broader variety of platforms without issuing warnings
Strengthened validation for Gaussian distribution.
Platforms checked:
KAI on d0chb with D0 environment
KAI on cdfsga with CDF environment
KAI on Redhat 5.0 (cdfpca)
MSVC++ 5.0 under NT
Various platforms at CERN including DEC, SUN, ...
Dependencies:
None.
Backward incompatibiliites:
HepAList is deprecated and will go away in a future CLHEP release. The HepAList sort() function is disabled at this time.

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