ErrorLogger v1.5; cvs rtag V01-05-00

Major code cleanup.
New Features in release:
Eliminated static globals.
Static globals in a library routine are bad. We have eliminated all possible order-of-statics initializtion gotchas.
ELcout feature excised.
This feature, which had been there for convenience in early transitions, was not being used, and users pointed out problems in principle with using it.
Removed use of pimpl algorithm.
The trick of using a pointer to all the implementation details - even those that must be in a header - to allow a class to change without forcing user re-compilations, was proving more of a burden than a boon.
Modified message used when an error is logged before destinations were established.
An ELoutput(cerr) is created, so this problem is not cause for panic.
Prevent messages from being logged at ELhighestSeverity.
ELhighestSeverity is there so that the framework can set thresholds (e.g., an abort threshold) higher than any user-produced error message can trigger.
Support a destination filtering messges by module name.
When an abort is done, abort() is used, to force a dump, instead of exit().
Fix order-of-static-destructors flaw.
Dependencies:
ZMutility v1.2.3 or higher
ISOcxx v1.1 or higher

HepTuple v1.6.22 cvs rtag V01-06-22

New Features in release:
Make HepTuple work using release 2.25 of ROOT as the file manager.
Raise the requested block quote (for columnwise Ntuples) to 65000.
This allows you to write as big an Ntuple as the current HBOOK will allow.
Adapt to work on gcc 2.95-2 and on Sun platforms.
Fix bug that was prevent users from writing output files into arbitrary directories.
Eliminate code flaws that were generating warnings under KAI 4.0.
Fix typo in documentation of HepHist1D, and augment other documentation.
Dependencies:
ZMutility v1.3.7 or higher
Exceptions v1.2.1 or higher
ISOcxx v1.1 or higher
Optional:
• Cernlib library must be linked in for HBOOK
• histo v5_0_3a0 or higher for histoscope
• root v2_23_00 or higher (including 2_25_00) for ROOT
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.
HBOOK Columwise Ntuples are restricted to 50 variables.
HBOOK itself does not handle columnwise Ntuples with more than 50 variables in a block. A good workaround is to have multiple blocks; each may have up to 50 variables.
Coming soon:
• Histogram arrays web documentation.
• Ntuple for the Root filemanager documentation.

ISOcxx v1.2.1; cvs rtag V01-02-01

ISOcxx is now usable with gcc.

New Features in release:

Vetted with gcc 2.95-2
Will not work with earlier versions of egcs or gcc.

Vetted with KAI 4.0
Improved behavior with respect to SunOS:
• Enable linker to find sunmath library.
• Allow shared libraries.
Multi-language behavior:
Take advantage of latest SRT updates to handle CPPFLAGS problem and enable correct compilation of multi-language packages.
Additional defects detected and, where possible, cured:
• DEFECT_NO_IOS_BASE
• DEFECT_NO_STRING_CLEAR
• DEFECT_NO_VIRTUAL_OVERRIDE
• DEFECT_NO_QUEUE_CONTAINER_TYPE
• DEFECT_NO_CONST_MEM_FUN1_T
• DEFECT_MEM_FUN1
• DEFECT_BAD_MAP_DEFAULT_ALLOCATOR
Additional workarounds to let code use C++ features in the face of possible compiler deficiencies:
• QUAL_NAME to specify a namespace only if that is supported.
• THROWS to specify exception list only if that is supported.
Related to the std:: library:
• Partial cure for missing ios header.
• Improved partial cure for missing sstream header.
  • Add istringstream constructor if necessary.
  • pull in string if necessary.
• Permit header inclusion even in absence of cure.
Documentation updates.
See general package documentation at http://www.fnal.gov/docs/working-groups/fpcltf/Pkg/ISOcxx/doc/0ISOcxx.html
as well as the html Defect Summary List and Defects Database.
Platforms checked:
Note: For this product, a platform is "checked" when the build - which discovers defects and prepares files that aid client code by transparently coping with those defects - has succeeded, and a test sample client code successfully excercised the defect correction.
If the package has been checked out for one instance of a system/compiler/switches combination, then installation on a similar platform should be trivial.
• KAI 3.3 under IRIX 6.5, SUnOS 5, Linux 5.2
• KAI 3.4 under IRIX 6.5, SUnOS 5, Linux 6.1
• KAI 4.0 under Linux 6.1
• gcc 2.95-2 under IRIX 6.5, SUnOS 5, Linux 6.1
Dependencies:
None
Restrictions:
Non-SRT usage mode not yet available.
Coming Soon:
• MSVC 6 under NT

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

New Features in release:
Compilation in coordination with ISOcxx.
Upgrade underlying gsl library to version 0.6.
This has no impact on the user interface to SpecialFunctions.
Hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions (sinh, etc.).
Logarithm integral Li(x) in added to ExpInegral class
Clebsh-Gordon added to Wigner class.
Functions that throw identify themselves.
Fix makefile and dependency file flaws:
• Flaw that prevented compilation with exceptions disabled.
• Inserted lin_Special_Functions.mk for CDF.
• Proper LIBDEPS file for D0.
Documention improvements
Platforms checked:
Linux (KCC)
Irix (KCC)
Irix (gcc)
Dependencies:
• Exceptions v1.3 or higher.
• ZMutilitiy v 1.5 or higher.
Warnings:
The package is intended to provide only these special functions and, as such, is a subset of the entire GNU Scientific Library.
No other parts of the GNU Scientific Library are included with this package. Those other parts are in no way tested or validated by ZOOM, nor do we promise that they will build. In fact, certain parts are known to have gcc-specific syntaxes, and are known NOT to compile on IRIX under KCC, which relies on the native C compiler.
Coming soon:
Version which is suitable for use completely outside the ZOOM environment.

CLHEP v1.5.17, cvs rtag V01-05-17

StdHep:
Added examples and other features that got into the cvs repository at CERN just after CLHEP 1.5 was released.
Repaired features in release:
Corrected operator== bug in Matrix.
S. Snyder had discovered that GenMatrix::operator== used incorrect indexing; this was repaired.
Eliminated flaws leading to warnings in Random package.
• Implicit conversoin of double to float.
• Missing return statement in a test program.
• Order-of-initialization issues uncovered when a constructor in a .icc file was tested on a system that warns about these.
Dependencies:
None.
Backward incompatibiliites:
HepAList and the Combinations package are deprecated and will go away in the next offical CLHEP release.

Exceptions v1.3.21; cvs rtag V01-03-21

New features in release:
Abort logic:
Modify code that used when a ZMexception is severe enough (and not handled) to cause an abort. As was suggested by users in the ErrorLogger package, the appropriate call to stop processing in such circumstances is abort(), which causes a dump, rather than exit().

PhysicsVectors v1.2.11; cvs rtag V01-02-11

New features in release:
Inserted using statements in tests
Necessary to enables tests in builds where namespace is in effect.
Coming soon:
The PhyiscsVectors capabilities are being merged into the CLHEP Vector classes.
• This will allow code to use (for example) Hep3Vector and also get the features of SpaceVector.
• For compatibility with existing code, the ZOOM PhysicsVectors package will remain, but will have mostly forwarding headers which define and namespace the appropriate original ZOOM names.
• The Hep3Vector and HepLorentzVector classes have already been merged with SpaceVector and LorentzVector, respectively. This code will go into the ZOOM cvs for CLHEP after this release is cut. The merged package will be released after the remaining Rotation and LorrentzTrasformation classes are done, and tests of the ZOOM features have been applied.

ZMtools v1.4.16; cvs rtag V01-04-16

Block.h:
Add member functions front() and back().
Add free function swap().
• Modify action when an exception causes a job to abort, to call abort() rahter than
HolderPtr:
Documentaion.

ZMutility v1.6; cvs rtag V01-06-00

New Features:
Recognize generic IRIX6, IRIX6_2, IRIX6_5.

As of 9/12/2000, the following rtags of ZOOM products exist:

Package	Tag	Version	Unchanged Since	Last Significant Change
Allocator	V01-00-00	v1.0	v1.0	v1.0
CLHEP	V01-05-17	v1.5.17	v1.5.17	v1.5
ErrorLogger	V01-05-00	v1.5	v1.5	v1.5
Exceptions	V01-03-21	v1.3.21	v1.3.21	v1.2.8
HepTuple	V01-06-22	v1.6.22	v1.6.22	v1.6
ISOcxx	V01-02-00	v1.2	v1.2	v1.2
LinearAlgebra	V01-03-11	v1.3.11	v1.3.5	v1.3.5
PhysicsVectors	V01-02-11	v1.2.11	v1.2.11	v1.1.7
SIunits	V01-00-01	v1.0.1 (KITS)	v1.0.1	v1.0.1
ZMtools	V01-04-16	v1.4.16	v1.4.16	v1.4
ZMutility	V01-06-00	v1.6	v1.6	v1.5

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