Dennis Klein

FairRoot shall not require environment variable to be set

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(follow-up of #1113 and many offline discussions regarding the more general topic of how to get rid of the `config.sh` **requirement**) As we concluded in our last group meeting (11.10.)...

Infinite segfault loop on closing event display window

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**OS**: Fedora 31 **Compiler**: GCC 10.2.1 **FairRoot**: dev @ 71dedec0fbeee1ff0a093709a6916c11663951f5 When closing the event display window by clicking the X in the top right corner, one ends up in an...

Can `FairRootManager::RegisterAny` consume `T*` instead of `T*&` as second argument?

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Followup on one aspect identified in #789. Disadvantages of `T*&`: * If people want to register object that are referenced by a smart pointer, they are currently told to extract...

libzmq: modernize and deprecate `@:4.3.2`

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I have grepped the builtin repo for `libzmq` dependents and did not find any conflicts with the proposed deprecation. Note, the [libzmq v4.3.3 release](https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/tag/v4.3.3) is already three years old.

* Ideally also provide a container image for convenient use

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html Cannot be done in one step, need to introduce transition period for some aspects. Current install tree snapshot on Fedora (5470270f80400257fa0872be0c3f027452898ee1): ``` ❯ tree install install ├── bin │  ...

There is another issue about branch IO of FairRootManger: There are two different, independent branch registries: `fAnyBranchMap` and `fMap`. These are used by different APIs of FairRootManager: 1. `fAnyBranchMap` is...

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* Clarify if it needs to be writable * Discuss how to default it to not require it to be set in the form of an environment variable (env variables...

* FairSoft should deliver an env script that populates all relevant `$*_PATH` search paths * Spack already provides `spack load` and optionally environment modules * FairRoot and/or ExperimentRoot would then...