Introduction
A number of our external libraries are in need of upgrades.
Python
Staying with version 2.5.1, but in need of reorganization.
Home Page: http://www.python.org/
We have been requested to include the following modules in GLAST's python distribution:
In addition there is an outstanding issue with zlib on rhel4, where it seems the libraries fails to build. We'll have to see if that behavior continues in this next build.
As for tcl/tk 8.4, the plan is that we build python against the same version used by the ftools (sometimes referred to as heasoft). We have a copy of heasoft installed at SLAC, currently on a rh9 build..but I'll be doing a rhel4 build soon. That build is located at $GLASTROOT/applications/heasoft/
We should confirm with Jim Chiang whether it is numpy or numarray we should be supporting. I no longer recall which is the more recent module...and I vaguely recall some of Zach Fewtrell's code used the older of the two - perhaps that has changed since last year.
OmniOrb
http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SAS/Building+omniORB+for+GLAST
FRED
Moving to version: v0r100
ROOT
Moving to version 5.20/00
Home Page: http://root.cern.ch/
Source is available from: http://root.cern.ch/root/Version520.html
Options we set up in GLAST for building ROOT from source:
http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/ROOT/Building+ROOT+on+Linux
http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/ROOT/Building+ROOT+on+Windows+with+VC8
Note: Please check the configuration used by the ROOT developers to see if there are additional flags we may be interested in.
Other Libraries we'll get to in good time:
xerces
CLHEP
Gaudi