Release 6.3.0 · ganga-devs/ganga

ganga/python/Ganga

Profiled and improved performance in GangaObject bigly.
Some code cleanups.
Added SharedFile file type for using large locally accessible files which doesn't copy a file as much as LocalFile.
Added many integration tests for MassStorageFile, SharedFile and LocalFile.
Added new exception types inheriting from GangaException to make reasons for the exceptions clearer.
Bugfix for GangaDataset and batch jobs #871

Added a universal check for all objects returned from calls to Dirac.
Added GangaDiracError exception type which is thrown when a command timesout/fails.

Cleaned up code for SplitByFiles, added more documentation.
Added new gridProxy object for backwards compatibility. This a wrapper around the new credential_store.
Default DiracProxy is constructed to be for lhcb_user.
Added function getAccessURLs to GPI to return a list of accessURLs for a provided list of DiracFiles or LFNs (strings).
Can access from the Dirac backend job.backend.getOutputDataAccessURLs(). #801
Bugfix for GaudiExec. Now it checks that the SE is writable before attempting to upload the tarballs #852
Update default LHCbDirac to v8r4p4

Integrated new credentials managment framework into Core.
Added AfsToken and VomsProxy for AFS and LCG credential managment.
_All forwarded kerberos tokens are expected to be renewable. If ganga hangs after kinit -R check your config!_

Added DiracProxy to allow for managing multiple proxies.
New grid proxies can be constructed via credential_store.create(DiracProxy()).
New grid proxies can be destoryed via credential_store.destroy(DiracProxy()).
Default DIRAC proxy group is now managed via [defaults_DiracProxy] group = myvo_user in your .gangarc.