Seal Meeting 7/10/2004: Topics and Tasks
❑ Status of packages:
❑ Foundation
✓ fixed bugs in time class and some tests in Seal Lassi
❑ plugin manager feedback mechanism. Tells now which plug-in has problems instead of an assert failed in m_factory. Lassi
❑ move Timers in SealUtil to SealBase. Decided to do move later after re-design timers with Lassi Lorenzo
❑ tag and run tests, will be done by Lassi Lassi
❑ Dictionary Stefan
✓ Old Reflection package and Reflex are there. Both tagged as SEAL_1_4_2_candidate.
❑ There is a problem of building dictionary library for both reflection. Problem is with capabilities which are the same. DictionaryService does not know which one to use.
❑ Proposed to have dictionaries built on Reflex in a new SEAL release, SEAL_2_0_0_pre1
❑ Need to implement one small request by Atlas, will be done by Stefan today.
❑ MathLib
✓ Minuit fixes for MAC OS are committed Lorenzo
❑ remove FMLMinuit and move all code in FML. Have a signle library will fix problems on Windows and Mac OS Lorenzo
❑ Need to look at controlling debug output on Minuit
❑ Look at compilation problem of MNContours on Mac OS
❑ Framework Radovan
❑ Need to fix something reported for Message service. Separate error messages from output stream to be filtered out more easly.
❑ Tag and run tests
❑ Scripting Massimo & Jacek
✓ PyBus and PyLCGDict1: no changes. Tagged as SEAL_1_4_2_candidate
✓ PyLCDict2 tagges as SEAL_1_4_2 candidate
❑ PyLCDict2: try to fix problem on MacOS with dynamic cast
❑ New Additions: Lassi
❑ Add a new module call extension, used in CMS. It opens URL and returns storage objects. Contains 3 packages with tests
❑ Status of release preparation
✓ A configuration is tagged as SEAL_1_4_2_pre1, based on LCG_30b (ROOT 3). Lorenzo
❑ Check which version of externals are needed ( ROOT, CLHEP, etc...) Pere
❑ As soon a 1_4_2_pre1 release is done, move to SEAL_1_5_2 (LCG_30 with ROOT 4)
❑ Remove obsolete code from HEAD (Imports, BLAS, etc...) Lorenzo
❑ Aim to have release early next week. Release will be built on rh73_gcc323, scl3, Mac OS and Windows. Do we still need gcc 3.2 ?
❑ build on Mac OS Massimo & Lorenzo
❑ Build on Linux rh73 Andreas P. & Lorenzo
❑ Build on scl3 Andreas P. & Lorenzo
❑ Build on Windows Pere
❑ update QMTest configuration for new tests Lorenzo
❑ Release independently parts of SEAL (splitting of SEAL)
❑ Can be easy implemented with new scram version, which will be deployed first in CMS then LCG. Wait for new Scram