Bug 438762 – sci-physics/pythia: invalid homepage url

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Savchenko 2012-10-18 03:02:10 UTC]

Hello,

pythia6 is hosted here:
http://pythia6.hepforge.org/

As for old URL (and apparent pythia8 homepage):
http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html
it is not available for now.

[Comment 1 Benda Xu 2012-10-18 06:13:20 UTC]

Thanks a lot for reporting. 

I am not a user of pythia. Could you please explain on the status of python8 vs python6?

[Comment 2 Benjamin Bannier 2012-10-18 07:18:00 UTC]

Hi,

yes, the URLs at hepforge.org seem to be a better choice:

* pythia6: http://pythia6.hepforge.org/
* pythia8: http://pythia8.hepforge.org/

Pythia6 is a FORTRAN implementation while Pythia8 is in principle a reimplementation in C++ by the same authors. Both seem to be updated. There is a move in the community towards Pythia8 (along the general move from FORTRAN to C++), but there are still subtle differences between the implementations so people often end up checking their results against both implementations. Also, many additional Pythia "addons" require a specific implementation. So please keep both pythia-6.* and pythia-8.* in tree.

[Comment 3 Benda Xu 2012-10-18 12:51:10 UTC]

Thanks a lot.

Just to comment that http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html is back online ;)

[Comment 4 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2012-11-30 22:09:28 UTC]

+  30 Nov 2012; Sébastien Fabbro <[e-mail]> -pythia-8.1.65.ebuild,
+  pythia-6.4.24.ebuild, pythia-6.4.26.ebuild, pythia-8.1.45.ebuild,
+  pythia-8.1.70.ebuild:
+  Changed home page, thanks Andrew Savchenko bug #438762
+