CHANGES.rst

astropy-helpers Changelog

1.0.4 (2015-10-02)

• Fixed a crash in ah_bootstrap.py when astropy-helpers can't be downloaded due to use off the --offline option, and a local copy is not available.
• Improved support for py.test >= 2.7--running the ./setup.py test command now copies all doc pages into the temporary test directory as well, so that all test files have a "common root directory". [#189]
• Fixed issue with the sphinx documentation css where the line numbers for code blocks were not aligned with the code. [#179]
• Fixed crash that could occur when trying to build Cython extension modules when Cython isn't installed. Normally this still results in a failed build, but was supposed to provide a useful error message rather than crash outright (this was a regression introduced in v1.0.3). [#181]
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Python 3 when a working C compiler isn't found. [#182]
• Quieted warnings about deprecated Numpy API in Cython extensions, when building Cython extensions against Numpy >= 1.7. [#183]

1.0.3 (2015-07-22)

• Added workaround for sphinx-doc/sphinx#1843, a but in Sphinx which prevented descriptor classes with a custom metaclass from being documented correctly. [#158]
• Added an alias for the ./setup.py build_sphinx command as ./setup.py build_docs which, to a new contributor, should hopefully be less cryptic. [#161]
• The fonts in graphviz diagrams now match the font of the HTML content. [#169]
• When the documentation is built on readthedocs.org, MathJax will be used for math rendering. When built elsewhere, the "pngmath" extension is still used for math rendering. [#170]
• Fix crash when importing astropy_helpers when running with python -OO [#171]
• The build and build_ext stages now correctly recognize the presence of C++ files in Cython extensions (previously only vanilla C worked). [#173]

1.0.2 (2015-04-02)

• Various fixes enabling the astropy-helpers Sphinx build command and Sphinx extensions to work with Sphinx 1.3. [#148]
• More improvement to the ability to handle multiple versions of astropy-helpers being imported in the same Python interpreter session in the (somewhat rare) case of nested installs. [#147]
• To better support high resolution displays, use SVG for the astropy logo and linkout image, falling back to PNGs for browsers that support it. [#150, #151]
• Improve setup_helpers.get_compiler_version to work with more compilers, and to return more info. This will help fix builds of Astropy on less common compilers, like Sun C. [#153]

1.0.1 (2015-03-04)

• Released in concert with v0.4.8 to address the same issues.
• Improved the ah_bootstrap script's ability to override existing installations of astropy-helpers with new versions in the context of installing multiple packages simultaneously within the same Python interpreter (e.g. when one package has in its setup_requires another package that uses a different version of astropy-helpers. [#144]
• Added a workaround to an issue in matplotlib that can, in rare cases, lead to a crash when installing packages that import matplotlib at build time. [#144]

0.4.8 (2015-03-04)

• Improved the ah_bootstrap script's ability to override existing installations of astropy-helpers with new versions in the context of installing multiple packages simultaneously within the same Python interpreter (e.g. when one package has in its setup_requires another package that uses a different version of astropy-helpers. [#144]
• Added a workaround to an issue in matplotlib that can, in rare cases, lead to a crash when installing packages that import matplotlib at build time. [#144]

1.0 (2015-02-17)

• Added new pre-/post-command hook points for setup.py commands. Now any package can define code to run before and/or after any setup.py command without having to manually subclass that command by adding pre_<command_name>_hook and post_<command_name>_hook callables to the package's setup_package.py module. See the PR for more details. [#112]

• The following objects in the astropy_helpers.setup_helpers module have been relocated:

  • get_dummy_distribution, get_distutils_*, get_compiler_option, add_command_option, is_distutils_display_option -> astropy_helpers.distutils_helpers
  • should_build_with_cython, generate_build_ext_command -> astropy_helpers.commands.build_ext
  • AstropyBuildPy -> astropy_helpers.commands.build_py
  • AstropyBuildSphinx -> astropy_helpers.commands.build_sphinx
  • AstropyInstall -> astropy_helpers.commands.install
  • AstropyInstallLib -> astropy_helpers.commands.install_lib
  • AstropyRegister -> astropy_helpers.commands.register
  • get_pkg_version_module -> astropy_helpers.version_helpers
  • write_if_different, import_file, get_numpy_include_path -> astropy_helpers.utils

  All of these are "soft" deprecations in the sense that they are still importable from astropy_helpers.setup_helpers for now, and there is no (easy) way to produce deprecation warnings when importing these objects from setup_helpers rather than directly from the modules they are defined in. But please consider updating any imports to these objects. [#110]

• Use of the astropy.sphinx.ext.astropyautosummary extension is deprecated for use with Sphinx < 1.2. Instead it should suffice to remove this extension for the extensions list in your conf.py and add the stock sphinx.ext.autosummary instead. [#131]

0.4.7 (2015-02-17)

• Fixed incorrect/missing git hash being added to the generated version.py when creating a release. [#141]

0.4.6 (2015-02-16)

• Fixed problems related to the automatically generated _compiler module not being created properly. [#139]

0.4.5 (2015-02-11)

• Fixed an issue where ah_bootstrap.py could blow up when astropy_helper's version number is 1.0.
• Added a workaround for documentation of properties in the rare case where the class's metaclass has a property of the same name. [#130]
• Fixed an issue on Python 3 where importing a package using astropy-helper's generated version.py module would crash when the current working directory is an empty git repository. [#114]
• Fixed an issue where the "revision count" appended to .dev versions by the generated version.py did not accurately reflect the revision count for the package it belongs to, and could be invalid if the current working directory is an unrelated git repository. [#107]
• Likewise, fixed a confusing warning message that could occur in the same circumstances as the above issue. [#121]

0.4.4 (2014-12-31)

• More improvements for building the documentation using Python 3.x. [#100]
• Additional minor fixes to Python 3 support. [#115]
• Updates to support new test features in Astropy [#92, #106]

0.4.3 (2014-10-22)

• The generated version.py file now preserves the git hash of installed copies of the package as well as when building a source distribution. That is, the git hash of the changeset that was installed/released is preserved. [#87]
• In smart resolver add resolution for class links when they exist in the intersphinx inventory, but not the mapping of the current package (e.g. when an affiliated package uses an astropy core class of which "actual" and "documented" location differs) [#88]
• Fixed a bug that could occur when running setup.py for the first time in a repository that uses astropy-helpers as a submodule: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'mkdtemp' [#89]
• Fixed a bug where optional arguments to the doctest-skip Sphinx directive were sometimes being left in the generated documentation output. [#90]
• Improved support for building the documentation using Python 3.x. [#96]
• Avoid error message if .git directory is not present. [#91]

0.4.2 (2014-08-09)

• Fixed some CSS issues in generated API docs. [#69]
• Fixed the warning message that could be displayed when generating a version number with some older versions of git. [#77]
• Fixed automodsumm to work with new versions of Sphinx (>= 1.2.2). [#80]

0.4.1 (2014-08-08)

• Fixed git revision count on systems with git versions older than v1.7.2. [#70]
• Fixed display of warning text when running a git command fails (previously the output of stderr was not being decoded properly). [#70]
• The --offline flag to setup.py understood by ah_bootstrap.py now also prevents git from going online to fetch submodule updates. [#67]
• The Sphinx extension for converting issue numbers to links in the changelog now supports working on arbitrary pages via a new conf.py setting: changelog_links_docpattern. By default it affects the changelog and whatsnew pages in one's Sphinx docs. [#61]
• Fixed crash that could result from users with missing/misconfigured locale settings. [#58]
• The font used for code examples in the docs is now the system-defined monospace font, rather than Minaco, which is not available on all platforms. [#50]

0.4 (2014-07-15)

• Initial release of astropy-helpers. See APE4 for details of the motivation and design of this package.

• The astropy_helpers package replaces the following modules in the astropy package:

  • astropy.setup_helpers -> astropy_helpers.setup_helpers
  • astropy.version_helpers -> astropy_helpers.version_helpers
  • astropy.sphinx - > astropy_helpers.sphinx

  These modules should be considered deprecated in astropy, and any new, non-critical changes to those modules will be made in astropy_helpers instead. Affiliated packages wishing to make use those modules (as in the Astropy package-template) should use the versions from astropy_helpers instead, and include the ah_bootstrap.py script in their project, for bootstrapping the astropy_helpers package in their setup.py script.