Geant4 21st Collaboration Meeting

Session

Parallel 6B - Geant4 Development Tools and Modularization

Sep 15, 2016, 2:00 PM

Aula Magna (Ferrara)

Description

Modularisation of Geant4 libraries
Migration from SVN to Git for version control
Usage of C Preprocessor Macros
Format and C++ API to access Data Libraries

114. Format and C++ Access to Data Libraries

Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

9/15/16, 2:00 PM

Discussion on use of data libraries in Geant4 - I/O performance issues, inc data format - Usability issues, including C++ and Environment Variables

115. Migration from SVN to Git

9/15/16, 2:30 PM

Discussion/brainstorm on migrating Geant4 to Git - Migration of repository contents - Development workflow/model, inc branches, tags, testing - Development tools, inc g4svn, gitlab

116. Modularisation of Geant4 Libraries

9/15/16, 3:00 PM

Discussion on Geant4 CMake/Library build structure - New CMake functionality to simplify library/module declaration and dependencies. - Timeline for migration to new CMake system - Aspects related to Git migration and repository structure - Simplification of preprocessor usage for robust builds of both Geant4 and client applications