Re: CLHEP

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:51:25 +0200 (METDST)

Hi Rutger,
At the recent Root workshop at FNAL, we discussed the CLHEP issue.
WE agreed that the CLHEP vectors/physics vector classes could be
incorporated inside Root. The idea is that we will start from the
existing CLHEP classes and Rootified them (for persistency).
The class names will be changed to avoid confusion with CLHEP.
But the API should be identical. We have agreed to upgrade the
Root classes whenever a change is made in the original CLHEP class.
FNAL will help in this process. I hope that the next release of Root
will incorporate this work.

Rene Brun

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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Rutger van der Eijk wrote:

> Hi Stefan Kluth & root-team & other rooters,
>
> I'm trying to get some code working which was written for HeraB, but
> partly is very usefull for me. The code uses CLHEP for as lineair algebra
> package. Last year I noticed your succesfull attempt of porting CLHEP to
> ROOT.
>
> What is the status of this code? Does it work with the latest ROOT
> version? And will it be suported in the future?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rutger
>
> p.s. I know within LHCb CLHEP will be used as lineair algebra package.
> Fortunatly finally people within LHCb are also start considering ROOT, so
> I think the acceptance of ROOT will be much easier if CLHEP and ROOT can
> be easily combined.
>
>