sPHENIX discussion of software

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

I just merged a PR which makes it possible to fetch identically named 
histograms from multiple servers (so you can run identical code on the 
servers and have a convenient histogram handling on the client side)

it took a bit longer than expected - internally it was a massive change 
(good luck merging if you have a privately modified version of the 
server or client). On you side the only change is that the getHisto() 
method which gets you the histogram now needs another parameter for the 
monitor server (which is a string). I went through all the subsystem 
code and adjusted it accordingly (just a search/replace of 
cl->getHisto("") to cl->getHisto("","")).

If you want to see how to run two servers you can use the cemc which was 
already using two servers (nice guinea pig to see if this actually 
works). Also the MyMon example runs now two servers.

Please merge your code asap. It's for your own benefit but also - the 
old and the new servers are incompatible. If the client goes off 
searching for histograms and the wrong server responds things will hang 
or crash (for both)

Chris



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