================ GaudiPolicy v5r6 ========================================
! 20020913 - Pere Mato
  - removed -Bsymbolic in the componentshr_linkopts macro. This is 
    suspected of producing memory leaks.
  - added more tags to take into account new version of redhat and gcc compiler

================ GaudiKernel v13r0 =======================================
! 2202-10-04 - Pere Mato
 - Changed interface IJobOptionsSvc to add accessors to the JobOptions 
   catalogue
   
! 2002-09-27 - Sebastien Ponce
 - fixes in order to compile on gcc 3.2
 - lots of coding conventions applications

! 2002-09-25 - Markus Frank
 - Add declarations for object factories to DeclareFactoryEntries.h
 - Remove windows compiler warning in Bootstrap.cpp

! 2002-09-25 - Sebastien Ponce
 - Implementation of the reinitialize method for DataSvc

! 20020916 Pere Mato
 - Changes to clean the reference counting and memory deallocation
   detected by the "valgrind" tool.

! 20020703 Paolo Calafiura
 - RegistryEntry.h: put DataSvc in the global ns when declaring as friend
 - Service.h: add ISvcLocator include for service() inline implementation        

! 20020628 Pere Mato, Sebastien Ponce
 - Improved error reporting when loading dynamic libraries
 - Changed INFO messages to DEBUG when initializing services
 - Replaced forward class declarations by including the concerned header files.
   This is to aliviate user confusion.
 - Added function format(string fmt, ...) that can be used to format messages
   within the MsgStream class.
   Example: 
   log << MSG::INFO << format("Evt: %8d Run: %8d", evt, run) << endmsg;
	 Caveat: Since the unspecified argument list is used (...) the arguments can not
	 be cheched for the correct type and possible conversions are not triggered. 

! 20020529 Paolo Calafiura
 - Auditor.h: service() needs IServiceLocator header file
 - DeclareFactoryEntries.h: typo in AudFactory name
 
! 20020506 Paolo Calafiura
 - PropertyMgr: use interface hub (Massimo ApplicationMgr refactoring)

! 20020506 Andrea Valassi
 - Change in MsgStream.h to allow the use of std::hex on Windows
 
================ GaudiSvc v10r0 ============================================
! 2002-10-04 - Pere Mato
 - Added accessors to the JobOptions Catalogue to allow to edit from any 
   client: getClients(), getProperties(...), addProperyToCatalogue(...),
   removePropertyFromcatalogue(...)
   New version of IJobOptionsSvc.

! 2002-09-27 - Sebastien Ponce
 - fixes in order to compile on gcc 3.2
 - lots of coding conventions applications

! 2002-09-27 - Sebastien Ponce
 - fixes in order to compile on gcc 3.2
 - lots of coding conventions applications

! 2002-09-27 - Pere Mato
 - Added the following properties to MessageSvc to allow the control of output level
   for objects that can not be controlled by job options (e.g. DetectorElement, etc.)
   MessageSvc.setVerbose += {"name1", "name2"};
   (or  setDebug, setInfo, setWarning, setError, setFatal, setAlways )
   
! 2002-09-25 - Sebastien Ponce
 - implementation of reinitialize method for DetDataSvc
 - implementation of histogram serialization and deserialization

! 20020924 - Pere Mato
 - Changes to clean the reference counting and memory deallocation
   detected by the "valgrind" tool. 
   Modified files: ApplicationMgr.cpp(h), 
   AlgorithmFactory.cpp, AppMgrRunable.cpp(h),  ConverterFactory.cpp, 
   DLLClassManager.cpp(h), EventLoopMgr.cpp(h), MinimalEventLoopMgr.cpp,
   ObjectManager.cpp(h), ServiceManager.cpp, AuditorSvc.cpp, EvtDataSvc.cpp(h),
   EventSelector.cpp, HistogramSvc.cpp, PropertyCompiler.cpp, MessageSvc.cpp,
   RndmEngine.cpp, RndmGen.cpp, RndmGenSvc.cpp
   
============== GaudiAud v6r1==========================================================
! 2002-09-24 - Pere Mato
 - Changes to clean the reference counting and memory deallocation
   detected by the "valgrind" tool. Changed failes: ChronoAuditor.cpp (.h)
 - requirements: use v* 

================ GaudiAlg v6r2 =======================================
! 2002-09-27 - Pere Mato
 - Added new base class GaudiAlgorithm developed originally in the context of 
   the LHCb Calorimeter (Ivan Belyaev [Ivan.Belyaev@cern.ch])
 
   The most essential features

   1) 3 predefined properties: a) "Input", b) "Output", c) "Detector" 
      for value of each property the special accessor is defined:
      inputData(), outputData(), detData() 

   2) initialize method prints the values of all used properties 
      in MSG::DEBUG mode 

   3) Simplified error/warning/exceptions/printing:

      StatusCode sc = ... ;
      if( sc.isFailure() ) { return Error("something wrong here!",sc);}
      ...
      if( sc.isFailure() ) { return Warning("something wrong here!",sc);}
 
      Each errors and warning are counted internally and at the end 
      one has the full printout of all errors, warnings and exceptions. 
 
      The actual error message is extended with the name the actual
      type (RTTI) of the algorithm 

   4) Easy way to deal with exceptions (catch, throw, re-throw) 
   
     a) throw the exception:

      if( sc.isFailure() ) { return Exception(" something wrong here!");}

      "Return" here is artificial. Nothing is actually returned.
      and exception is thrown 

     b) catch and rethrow the exceptions
      try { ... }
      catch( const GaudiException& e1 )  {
        /* do something here */ 
        /// rethrow the exception (if needed) 
        return Exception(" coudl not recove Gaudi exception, rethrow it ", e1 );
      }
      catch( const std::exception& e2 )  {
        /* do something here */ 
        /// rethrow the exception (if needed) 
        return Exception(" could not recove the std::exception, rethrow it ", e2 );
      }
      catch( ... ) {
        /* do something here */ 
        /// rethrow the exception (if needed) 
        return Exception(" could not recove the unknown  exception ");
      }

 
   5) easy ("1 line") access to the data, e.g. 
 
     const MCParticles* particles = get( eventSvc() , inputData() , particles  );

     In the case of errors, method throws an exception. 
     Error message is printed. 
     One does not need to check the value of pointer against null.  
     For "DEBUG" output level the actual data type and location will be
     printed.

   6) easy ("one line) registration of object into GTES: 

     MCParticles* particles = ... ;
     StatusCode sc = put( particles , outputData() );

     In the case of errors, method throws an exception. 
     Error message is printed. 
     One does not need to check the return value.  
     For "DEBUG" output level the actual data type and 
     location will be printed.
 

   7) easy ("one line") access to tools:

     IMyTool* mytool1 = tool( "some combination of type and name" , mytool1 , this ) ; 
     IMyTool* mytool2 = tool( "some type", "some name" , mytool2 , this ) ; 
 
     Both methods throw exception for unlocated tools. 
     Type coudl be "Type" or "Type/Name" , Name could be "Name" or "", 
     and any combination is possible and has sence.
     It is useful if one specify Type, Name or  Type/Name from properties.
     The methods are able to decoder properly all these cases. 
     For "DEBUG" output level the actual tool type and name will be printed.
  
   8) Assertions

     StatusCode sc = ... ;
     Assert( sc.isSuccess() , " soem failure occurs! " ); 

     Assertions are efficient (they are inlined), they do not 
     result in significant performance degradation and could be 
     used for all purposes.

! 2002-09-24 - Pere Mato
 - Changes to clean the reference counting and memory deallocation
   detected by the "valgrind" tool. Changed files: Sequencer.cpp
   
================ GaudiGSL v2r0 =======================================
! 2002-09-27 - Ivan Belyaev & Kirill Miklyaev 
 - new minimization tool is added   
  GaudiGSL/IFuncMinimum.h     the abstract interface 
  src/FuncMinimum.h,.cpp      the concrete implementation 
                              of minimization tool

  Example of the configuration of minimization tool:

// choice of underlying minimization algorithms: 
//  (1) conjugate_fr  ( default )
//  (2) conjugate_pr 
//  (3) vector_bfgs 
//  (4) steepest_descendent 
ToolSvc.FuncMinimum.Algorithm = "conjugate_fr" ;  /// default value 
 
/// declare maximum of iteration
ToolSvc.FuncMinimum.Iteration = 1000           ; // default value is 200 
 
/// declare the absolute tolerance for the Euclidean norm of the gradient
ToolSvc.FuncMinimum.Gradient  = 1e-10          ; // defualt value 

!==================== HbookCnv v13r1 ==========================
! 2002-09-23 - Florence Ranjard
  - requirements - use v*

! 2002-07-16 - Florence Ranjard
  - requirements - use CERNLIB v2r2002p* and AIDA v3r22p*

! 2002-06-04 - Charles Leggett
  - write/read CWNTuples with multiple blocks.

    writing to block "LEPTON":
        nt->addItem ("LEPTON/NELE", m_nele, 0, 100);
        nt->addItem ("LEPTON/PXELE", m_pxele, m_nele);
      if no block name is given, variables will be put in a block
      called AUTO_BLK
        nt->addItem ("Event", m_event);

    reading:
      use same format as for writing
	nt->item("LEPTON/NELE", m_nele);
	nt->item("LEPTON/PXELE", m_pxele);
        nt->item("Event",m_event);

    Block names must be at most 8 characters.
	
! 2002-05-15 - Paolo Calafiura
  - changes to dinamically resize pawc. //Charles
  
=============== GaudiObjDesc v4r5 ======================================
!20020925 - Stefan
- new database of header-files generated
- meta-information about constructors added to the dictionary-files

================ GaudiODBCDb v8r1======================================
! 20020927 - Markus Frank (v6r0)
 - Fix compatibility on Linux. Should compile without warnings.