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Whats new in version 5 of GAUDI

• LHCb Software Week
• 5-7 July 2000
• P. Mato / CERN

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Contents

• Whats new in GAUDI
• Review of Progress
• Status of Release

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Whats new in GAUDI

• ROOT based I/O
• SICb Data Access (Gonzalos talk)
• Random Number Service (Markuss talk)
• Tools Service (Glorias talk)
• Sequencing, Filtering Enhanced Properties
• New XML parser
• Bug fixes Improvements
• Bug reporting tool (Marcos talk)

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ROOT based I/O

• Using directly the ROOT libraries to implement
  Object Persistency
• This has been possible due to the modularization
  efforts in the latest versions of ROOT
• Retired RIO and RIOT packages from G. Barrand
• Small library dependency problem in NT
• Transparent to the end-user

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Sequencing, Filtering Enhanced Properties

• Work done by D. Quarrie (ATLAS) following the
  ideas existing in the BaBar framework
• An (small) example of a collaboration
• New package (GaudiAlg) introduced. A collection
  of general purpose Algorithms.

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New XML parser

• Xeres-C XML parser from Apache Software
  Foundation
• Free
• http//www.apache.org/
• Why?
• Better parser (experts view)
• Single library instead of 2 currently (XML4C and
  ICU)
• Transparent to the end-user

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Bug Fixes and Improvements

• JobOptions files with environment variables
• strings properties with (xxx) are resolved
• Separated library for Fortran routines in SicbCnv
• Change common block size for N-tuples
• ApplicationMgr property evtSel NONE if input
  event file in not required
• Stop application if Algorithm fails execution
• Property OutputLevel for Services made to work
• Improved printout of ChronoSvc

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Development Environment changes

• CMT version v1r5 (see Florences talk tomorrow)
• New compilers on NT
• Visual C 6.0
• Visual Fortran 6.1
• Adopted new compilation flags on Linux to make
  the code more portable
• (-ansi -Wall - W)
• Gaudi developers mailing list
• gaudi-developers_at_listbox.cern.ch
• Problem reporting tool (see Marcos talk)

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What will not be on the Release

• Event collections
• Monitoring utilities (property browser, data
  store browser, )
• Re-structuring of ApplicationMgr

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Task List (from last April)
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Status of release 5

• All packages being committed and working in the
  DEV area
• Very minor changes needed
• Working on new version of Users Guide
• Public release in 2 weeks (holiday period!)