 15 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, which C++?
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> With the removal of the requirement to make it possible to write MIDAS frontends in C, we can switch the MIDAS
> default build to C++ and start using C++ features in the MIDAS API (std::string, std::vector, etc).
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15 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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> > With the removal of the requirement to make it possible to write MIDAS frontends in C, we can switch the MIDAS
> > default build to C++ and start using C++ features in the MIDAS API (std::string, std::vector, etc).
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23 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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> Dear Konstantin and others, our recent discussion stimulated my curiosity and I wrote a small frontend for the trigger board of our
experiment in C++.
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 30 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, How to convert C midas frontends to C++
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To convert a MIDAS frontend to C++ follow this checklist:
a) add #include "mfe.h" after include of midas.h and fix all compilation errors.
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06 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, rmlogger - bk_swap( )
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> > #5 <signal handler called>
> > #6 bk_swap (event=event
> > #7 0x000244f0 in root_write (log_chn=0x17ec188, pevent=0x0, evt_size=<optimized out>) at src/mlogger.cxx:3364
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11 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, which C++?
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> [which c++]
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> - Linux RHEL/SL/CentOS6 - gcc 4.4.7, no C++11.
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22 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2019-03-g
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> the midas release 2019-03 is ready for general use.
first ever bug fix release on a git release branch.
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22 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++
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> switch MIDAS to C++
switch to C++ will proceed as follows:
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28 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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> Great news!
Some additional information.
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03 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, midas wiki updated to mediawiki 1.27.5
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the midas wiki was updated to the latest LTS point release 1.27.5.
Also, an installation error was fixed that prevented confirmation of new accounts (git checkout
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03 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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> 1) cmake3 is available on all currently supported systems:
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> - SL6 (el6), CentOS7 (el7): yum install cmake3 (from EPEL) (invoke as "cmake3")
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05 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS switched to C++
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The last bits of code to switch MIDAS to C++ have been committed, see tag midas-2019-05-cxx.
Since the cmake conversion is still in progress, for now, I recommend using the old "make" build for trying this update.
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05 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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Status update on the cmake conversion:
- we have cmake builds working on all supported systems (el6, el7, ubuntu 18.04 LTS, macos 10.13, 10.14)
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05 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, How to convert C midas frontends to C++
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> To convert a MIDAS frontend to C++ follow this checklist:
Pierre A.-A. reminded me that include files for CAEN libraries have to
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06 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2019-03-h
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> > the midas release 2019-03 is ready for general use.
A bug fix update for midas-2019-03:
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07 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, midas wiki updated to mediawiki 1.27.7
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the midas wiki was updated to the latest LTS point release 1.27.7, the latest (last?) security update.
mediawiki series 1.27 is now officially EOL, see
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10 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, mxml-2019-03-a, midas-2019-03-h
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> > > the midas release 2019-03 is ready for general use.
> A bug fix update for midas-2019-03:
> odbedit "ver" should report: Thu Jun 6 18:02:14 2019 -0700 - midas-2019-03-h on branch feature/midas-2019-03
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10 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, status of self-signed https certificates
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> > > In the mean time, we continue to recommend that mhttpd should be used behind a password protected https proxy (i.e. apache
> > > httpd, etc).
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10 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, bin and lib symlinks, mxml-2019-03-a, midas-2019-03-h
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> > > > the midas release 2019-03 is ready for general use.
The latest version of MIDAS puts libraries and executables in $MIDASSYS/lib and bin (the "linux" part of pathname is removed).
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17 Jun 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Strange JS array creation
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> db_create_key(hDB, 0, "Equipment/Switching/Variables/DATA_WRITE", TID_INT);
you can also do this from javascript, too, using the db_create rpc call, see mjsonrpc_db_create() and
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