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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Alex A. was asking me some questions on this change and I thought
      I would share some of the answers generally.</p>
    <p>The change comes in the default definition of <span
        class="blob-code-inner">JANA_GEOMETRY_URL. This variable
        controls where geometry information comes from. In the bad old
        days information could only come from files in $HDDS_HOME. The
        modern approach is to get it from the CCDB.<br>
      </span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner">Old default:</span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner">  </span><span
        class="blob-code-inner"><span class="blob-code-inner">setenv
          JANA_GEOMETRY_URL <span class="x x-first x-last">xmlfile</span>://<span
            class="pl-smi x x-first x-last">$HDDS_HOME</span>/main_HDDS.xml</span></span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner"><span class="blob-code-inner">New
          default:</span></span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner"><span class="blob-code-inner"><span
            class="blob-code-inner">  setenv JANA_GEOMETRY_URL <span
              class="x x-first x-last">ccdb</span>://<span class="x
              x-first x-last">/GEOMETRY</span>/main_HDDS.xml</span></span></span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner"><span class="blob-code-inner"><span
            class="blob-code-inner">so this change modernizes the
            default.<br>
          </span></span></span></p>
    <p><span class="blob-code-inner"><span class="blob-code-inner"><span
            class="blob-code-inner">These definitions are done in
            gluex_env.(c)sh, upon which gluex_env_jlab.(c)sh is based.
            Note that users are free to overwrite these defaults in
            their environments to get whatever behavior is desired.<br>
          </span></span></span></p>
    If you have an old analysis, and you were depending on the default
    definition of JANA_GEOMETRY_URL, then in the new world, you will
    have to explicitly set this variable to the old definition to
    guarantee your old behavior.<br>
    <br>
      -- Mark<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/22/2018 04:31 PM, Mark Ito wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:057a801e-e7fe-3abe-917a-a36fd3f85c45@jlab.org">Folks,
      <br>
      <br>
      There is new version of build_scripts installed at JLab. By
      default, the geometry is obtained from the CCDB rather than the
      XML files in HDDS_HOME. See the release notes at
      <br>
      <br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/releases/tag/1.31">https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/releases/tag/1.31</a>
      <br>
      <br>
        -- Mark
      <br>
      <br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Mark Ito, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org">marki@jlab.org</a>, (757)269-5295
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