Release notes
DIAL release 1.20
David Adams
03jun05

The following changes (from 1.10) appear in DIAL release 1.20.

1. Addition of TextDataset and make_text_datast enabling
   users to create applications with text output rather
   then being restricted to ROOT files.

2. Full credential delegation. All grid activities such as file
   transfer or globus job submission are now done using the
   credential of the submitting user rather than the credential
   useed to run the service. This credential is also made available
   as part of the job so that it can be used during data processing.

3. New job implementation ScriptedJob makes it possible to add a
   backend processing system to a DIAL scheduler without adding any
   code to DIAL. Dietrich is looking at this for gLite/LCG and
   Frederik for ATLAS production.

4. When a subjob fails, the remaining running subjobs are killed
   instead of being left indefinetely in the running state.

5. LSF jobs that time out of bjobs are now handled properly.

6. Results are not posted after every subjob append--this was too slow
   for ntuple results.

7. ATLAS release 10.0.1 and root 4.03.02 are now used. This avoids
   incompatibilities with root 4.02.