Release Notes - SLIC - Version 2.0

I. Overview

These are the release notes for the SLIC 2.0 release. This corresponds to the CVS tag v2r0p7 in the SLAC CVS.

The slic homepage has links to documentation for this software package.

The SLIC Wiki is a good source of information where you may add comments, corrections, etc.

II. Getting SLIC

The SLIC source code is anonymously accessible using the following command.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd co slic

The sources can also be browsed online.

Binaries are available from the slic distribution directory.

Finally, the SimDist project is a standalone package for building slic plus all of its dependencies. It is also accessible via the SLAC cvs. SimDist can be obtained and built as follows.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd co SimDist
cd SimDist
./configure [options]
make

SimDist is the preferred method for users to build slic, as configuring slic and all 7 of its dependencies from scratch is prone to error.

These are the current package versions used by SimDist.

• clhep v1r9p2_2
• gdml v2r5p0_2
• geant4 v8r1p02
• lcdd v1r11p1
• lcio v1r7p2
• lcphys v1r0p1
• slic v2r0p7
• xerces v2r7p0

Other versions may or may not work. In general, only the versions withint SimDist are tested for compatability. If you are maintaining a slic installation manually without using SimDist, it is highly recommended that you update to these package versions or slic may either fail to build or not work correctly.

III. This Release

Since the releases for slic have not been very regular, a number of items from the Jira were reassigned to the 2.0 release in the interest of consolidation. All Jira items in the 1.14.0 release were reassigned to 2.0, and the 1.14.0 release was deleted, as it was never released.

No major, new features have been introduced this version. See the Improvement and New Feature sections for some minor, additional features that were added.

A few, relatively minor, bugs were fixed. There has not been any major reworking of MCParticle codes, etc., though there are still several outstanding bugs in this area that are currently being worked on.

IV. Issue Summary

The slic Jira is the official bug tracker for this project. All of the bug fixes, new features, and improvements are tracked here. It should be accessible anonymously, though you cannot comment on items unless you are logged-in.

The following was automatically generated by Jira.

Bug

• [SLIC-2] - Cannot open stdhep file if space in filename
• [SLIC-114] - Up arrow to cycle through previous commands is broken in Geant4 UI terminal.
• [SLIC-122] - Output when using "-h" and "-v" is too cluttered.
• [SLIC-137] - The -o argument incorrectly treats all paths as relative.

Improvement

• [SLIC-3] - enums for generator type
• [SLIC-139] - If LCIO file exists, program should not crash.
• [SLIC-146] - Singleton module and manager classes should be templated.
• [SLIC-148] - Add physics list to list of autoname fields.

New Feature

• [SLIC-5] - Should be a way to set the initial run number
• [SLIC-7] - Read MCP information from an LCIO file's MCParticle collection.
• [SLIC-10] - Event timer
• [SLIC-115] - Write id encodings into LCIO output file.
• [SLIC-121] - Add the name of the binary to options for autonaming.
• [SLIC-129] - Command line option to dump GDML file.
• [SLIC-131] - SimDist: Statically linked Xerces library.

Task

• [SLIC-120] - Test the nbar and antiproton patch from Dennis.

V. Contact

Any bug reports, problems, questions, comments, etc. can be sent to the primary maintainer, Jeremy McCormick<jeremym@slac.stanford.edu>.