Go HEP release 0.11

DOI

Release v0.11 is fresh from the oven.

This release drops official support for Go-1.7 and earlier, adds support for Go-1.10.

This allowed to migrate the fwk package away from golang.org/x/net/context. fwk now directly uses the context.Context type from the standard library.

rootio

This release brings quite a few improvements in the rootio area:

  • add support for empty ROOT files,
  • add support for reading remote ROOT files over HTTP. This is implemented in a quite naive way, using net/http.Get to download the whole file under a temporary directory. See go-hep/hep#142 for ideas on how to improve this,
  • add support for TH1-v6,
  • add support for streamer-less TDirectoryFile,
  • add support for TBranchElements in cmd/root-dump,
  • add support for displaying TH1, TH2 and TGraph{,Error}s in cmd/root-dump,
  • add support for branches and leaves with names only differing by case in cmd/root-gen-datareader. Now, the struct type being generated contains fields whose names start with ROOT_. The original branch or leaf name is then appended after ROOT_, unmodified.
  • add support for TKeys with a large binary payload,
  • add preliminary support for creating new Go types at runtime directly from a StreamerInfo value,
  • add more documentation about ROOT binary file format (TFile, TKey and a bit about TStreamerInfo so far.)

hbook

  • fixed a bug in the YODA ASCII file parsing code that would choke on analysis objects (histograms, scatters, …) that contain whitespace.

AOB

LPC-Clermont has funded a 5 months internship student, starting now. Mohamed Amine El Gnaoui (@maloft) will:

  • implement reading all ROOT files created with ROOT-6,
  • implement writing ROOT files, in a ROOT-6 compatible way,
  • improve the read/write performances of Go-HEP to be on par with that of ROOT/C++ (using the builtin performance tools of the Go toolchain: pprof, execution tracer, … and/or linux perf)
  • extend the test suite of Go-HEP for reading and writing ROOT files,
  • add benchmark tests for reading and writing ROOT files,
  • document the ROOT file format as understood by Go-HEP.

Welcome to Go-HEP, Amine!