Fermilab Physics Class Library Task Force (ZOOM)

Contents:

Announcements

ZOOM cvs Repository: How to get anonymous (read only) access
Note about additional CLHEP/Random methods for saving and restoring engine and distribution states

News and recent developments

Packages

• The ZOOM Packages
  Version info, plus a quick way to get to either a brief description or the main web documentation page for any package.

• Brief Descriptions of the ZOOM packages
• Code of ZOOM Packages via browser
• Collected release notices separated by package.
• Proposed enhancements to ZOOM production packages -- proposals, open discussions, and intentions

Information

• Recent release notices
• ZOOM-supported platforms
• Selected ZOOM documents, slides, and presentations
• Contact information for ZOOM support

ZOOM news and recent developments:

ZOOM Release Note

Packages modified in this release:

CLHEP/HepPDT
Repair flaws exposed by the new gcc 3.4.1 two-stage name lookup scheme.

CLHEP/Random
Minor modification in RandEngine to suppress a warning about 32-bit shifting on 32-bit machines.

ErrorLogger
Fix an error in ThreadSafeErrorLogger.icc. Also make fixed in ZMexAugmented.h and ZMexAugmented.icc. All these were uncovered by gcc 3.4.1.

HepTuple
Remove all use of STLUtility and use the standard library STL.

ISOcxx
Add adaptations co accommodate gcc 3.4.1.

SpecialFunctions
Minor update to accommodate gsl 1.5 Generalize test script to run in either silent or verbose mode.

May 12, 2004:

ZOOM release R-04-05-14 has been rtagged and released

ZOOM Release Note

Packages modified in this release:

CLHEP/Random
Generalize RandEngineBuilder to allow more variation in underlying engine.
Fix a bug in RandPoissonQ and PoissonT.

CLHEP/Vector
Correct behavior of rapidity() for a light-like particle moving along -z.

ErrorLogger
Clean up some output formats.
Allow setting a threshold for doing exit().
Fix a bug in setting time zone for timestamps.

ZMutility
Rename a preprocessor macro from BEGIN_UNNAMED_NAMESPACE to ZM_BEGIN_UNNAMED_NAMESPACE to be consistent with many other macros.
Update pretendToUse.h to reflect this macro name change.

History of past news items

How to Access the ZOOM cvs Repository

To obtain write privilege for a specific ZOOM package, which goes via the CVSROOT cvsuser@zoomcvs.fnal.gov:/usr/people/cvsuser/repository, please contact the zoom support group.

Write access to the ZOOM repository does require Kerberos.

The ZOOM Packages

1. Packages in production status
   Production packages have:
   • Feature Logs for change management and discussion of proposed enhancements
   • Problem Tracking for quick perusal of bugs, either open or corrected in the past
   • These logs may be accessed via the ZOOM Production Packages Page
   Mature ZOOM-developed packages
   Externally-developed packages with substantial ZOOM involvement and validation
2. Packages available but not declared production
   These are appropiate for use in Run II code, but for some reason are not under formal production change management:
   ZOOM-developed packages approaching production-status maturity
   Externally available or contributed packages having ZOOM versions for user convenience
   Run II support packages shared via the ZOOM repository
3. Packages not suited for routine use
   Packages in early (pre-beta) stages of development
   Obsolete packages

Production packages (and some others) tend to have

• Full html documentation in a file kept in the cvs repository as the package name preceeded by 0 (as in 0ErrorLogger.html)
• Some form of more concise basic user information

Production-status Packages

Package Name - - - - - - - - -	Version and Release Info - - - - - - -	Brief Description - - - - - -- - -	Namespace and Dependencies - - - - - - - - -	Getting Started and Full Documentation - - - - - - - - -
ErrLogEx	2.0.6	Exceptions > > ErrorLogger	dependencies	0ErrLogEx html
ErrorLogger	2.2	Message logging and statistics	zmel	How to log a message 0ErrorLogger html
Exceptions	2.0.9	Logged, handle-able exceptions	zmex	Use of Zoom Exceptions 0Exceptions html
HepTuple	2.2	Histogram and Ntuple collecection	zmht	Ntuple tutorial example 0HepTuple html
ISOcxx	2.0.6	Portability of Standard C++	zmiso	Defects List 0ISOcxx html
LinearAlgebra	2.2.1	Matrix Operations	zmla	User's Guide ps or pdf 0LinearAlgebra html
CLHEP Matrix	1.8.3	Matrix operations	---	CLHEP Matrix Reference
CLHEP Random	1.8.3	Random engines and distributions	---	CLHEP Reference ZOOM's Random html
PhysicsVectors	2.2	3- and 4- Vectors and Rotations for HEP	zmpv	Formulas & Definitions 0PhysicsVectors html
CLHEP Vector	1.8.3	3- and 4- Vectors and Rotations for HEP	---	Formulas & Defs html CLHEP/Vector page
SpecialFunctions	2.0.2	Collection of math functions	zmsf	0SpecialFunctions html
ValuePtr	2.0.1	Ptr with deep copy semantics previously HolderPtr	zoom	0ValuePtr html
ZMtimer	2.0.4	CPU and wall clock timing previously in ZMtools	zmtmr	0ZMtimer html
ZMtools	2.2.4	Collection of small tool classes	zmt	0ZMtools html
.. assertN.h		Graded assert macros	---	0assertN html
.. Block		Block-initializable container	zmt	0Block html
.. HolderPtr		Moved: See ValuePtr
.. IteratorFilter		Selection while transversing	zmt	0IteratorFilter html
.. pretendToUse		Avoiding unused-variable warnings	---	0pretendToUse html
ZMutility	2.0.4	Fixed sizes Types and other auxilliaries	zmfxt	Guide to Fixed Types 0ZMutilities html

Other Packages

Package Name - - - - - - - - -	Version and Release Info - - - - - - -	Brief Description - - - - - -- - -	Namespace and Dependencies - - - - - - - - -	Getting Started and Full Documentation - - - - - - - - -
Allocator	1.0.4	Fast memory allocation	---	0Allocator html
CLHEP	1.8.3	CLHEP packages not validated by ZOOM	CLHEP dependencies	Official CLHEP Page ZOOM's 0CLHEP html
CovMatrices	1.0.2	Fast SPD Matrix operations	---	0CovMatrices html
CLHEP HepPDT	1.8.3	Particle Properties and decay channels	HepPDT	0HepPDT.html
CLHEP HepMC	1.8.3	Concrete particles and event container	HepMC	0HepMC.html
CLHEP StdHep	1.8.3	Generator interfaces and event I/O	StdHep	0StdHep.html
HistTools	0.1.4	Histogram comparisons	HistTools dependencies

Packages in Early Development

Package Name	Version and Release Info	Brief Description	Namespace and Dependencies	Package Logs and Documentation
Minimization	---	C++ Object-Oriented Minuit Replacement	---	---
Splines	---	N-dimensional Splines with O(h^4) errors.	---	---

Obsolete Packages

Package Name	Brief Description	Replacement
FixedTypes	Fixed-size data types	Use ZMutility to obtain these types
STLUtility	Intrusive workarounds for deficient STL	ISOcxx replaces this package

ZOOM contact information:

zoom@fnal.gov

ZOOM task force mailing list. Open participation; D0 and CDF experimenters particularly encouraged to subscribe.

ZOOM Product Support mailing list. Users are encouraged to report problems with ZOOM packages or to request assistance in finding, setting up, and using packages, via this address. Please use the package name as the first word of the subject.

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