Support

Maturity and Completeness

Nirvana is 'owned' by Fermilab and will survice has long as Fermilab supports it.

Who supports users

Fermilab
Yes it is already used by the HEP community but no newsgroup.  Python has newsgroups and existing knowledgable person in the HEP community.
Might need training for Python.  GUI is good enough to be learnt on the spot.
Available for Python.
Same as python (and the Nirvana group for Nirvana's specific parts)
Yes up to version 4.  New features will need documentation.

Licensing


Maintenance

Who provides it and how much:

Fermilab
Yes
No.
 

Maintenance Infrastructure

Ansi C and Motif.  Standard makefiles.
Yes
N/A
No
Yes

Maturity and Completeness

No
Yes
 

Modularity:

Will need an upgrade of the Graphical Interface and the addition of an interpreter (with Python the likely choice)  (The latter comment seems to be a little hasty to me.)
 Yes.
Yes
To a large extend.
Yes. Graphical Interface, interpreter and I/O are three sub-packages.
Currently need Motif and Minuit.  Will need python.
 

Portability

Available on ALL platform as of June 98.
 
ok.
 

Standards:

ok.
the few authors have entire control.
it's alright
No high level design tool is currently used.

Reliability and Security:

Application specific: