Minutes of the offline meeting held on 26 January 1999

Present: P.Mato, P.Maley, P.Colrain, J.Harvey, G.Corti,H.Dijkstra,N.Neufeld,R.Forty,
            J.Saborido, E.van Herwijnen, I.Videau, G.Gracia, M.Cattaneo,
            M.Franck, R.Van Der Eijk, M.Alemi, F.Ranjard

Minutes : Florence Ranjard

      1. Outer Tracker TestBeam package in the ROOT framework (R.Van Der Eijk)

        Rutger presented the package is has written in the ROOT framework for the Outer Tracker TestBeam :

                                      http://home.cern.ch/~lhcbott/software/OTTUseOfRoot19990126.ppt

        The full documentation can be found at http://home.cern.ch/~lhcbott/Index.html

==> related remarks:

• Rutger has found ROOT is to used and well documented.
• Bugs are corrected quickly and new releases are backward compatible.
• But ROOT does not support STL

 

2. LHCb OO course (M.Cattaneo)

Marco presented appreciations and suggestions on the two LHCb OO sessions.(ppt)

==> remarks:

• start was too slow, much better in the 2nd session.
• there was not enough time for design.
• there was not enough time for discussion    
• The course should concentrate to OO Analysis & Design
• ==> go back to two different courses : OO Analysis & Design , C++
• The conventions proposed during the course were not always consistent with our conventions.
• MS Dev Studio is very easy to learn.

           Several questions about C++ and JAVA:

• Is C++ the right language to use ?  Why not JAVA?                   

              it is quite possible that we will move to JAVA one day if

• JAVA has good compilers
• HEP library exists in JAVA

3. A.O.B

Because of the Software week (8-12 February)  I propose to have NO Offline   meeting next week (2 February)

Next Offline meeting after the LHCb week (23 February)