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Entry  22 Sep 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, obsolete mana.c removal 
    Reply  23 Sep 2025, Andreas Suter, Info, obsolete mana.c removal 
       Reply  23 Sep 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, obsolete mana.c removal 
          Reply  24 Sep 2025, Andreas Suter, Info, obsolete mana.c removal 
Message ID: 3090     Entry time: 23 Sep 2025     In reply to: 3089     Reply to this: 3091
Author: Andreas Suter 
Topic: Info 
Subject: obsolete mana.c removal 
Hi,
at the LEM Experiment at PSI, we still use mana.c and would like to keep it until end of 2026, where we will enter a long shutdown.
There we will switch to the manalyzer. Before that, there is simply no time for the change over. One thing I already noticed is the "lack" of documentation, since 
for a lot of items I found simply "TBW". I know that writing documentation is boring and hard, but I hope at the time we will switch there is a more complete 
documentation available.

Thanks a lot for the ongoing development and support

Andreas

> Following discussions at the MIDAS workshop and the proposed removal of support for ROOT, the very obsolete mana.c 
> analyzer framework has reached the end of the line.
> 
> Right now we cannot remember any experiment that uses a mana.c based analyzer. Most experiments use analyzers based 
> on the rootana package (developed for ALPHA-1 at CERN) and on the manalyzer package (developed for ALPHA-2 and ALPHA-
> g at CERN, with multithreading support contributed by Joseph McKenna).
> 
> If you know of any experiment that uses a mana.c based analyzer, please let us know. We can help with building it 
> using an outside-of-midas local copy of mana.c or help with migration to a newer framework (or migration to a 
> framework-free standalone analyzer).
> 
> If we do not hear from anybody, we will remove mana.c (and rmana) at the same time as we remove ROOT support from 
> mlogger (rmlogger).
> 
> K.O.
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