6.0.0

This new release is targeting the EDEN 3 development environment. The major changes are:

• A new companion software called ElementsEnv that supersedes the original EuclidEnv python project.
• The support for a BINARY_TAG with only the major version of the compiler. For example, x86_64-fc34-gcc112-dbg becomes x86_64-fc34-gcc11-dbg for gcc 11.2. It relaxes the binary dependency between the projects. Internally, however, the branching on the compiler can still be done on the major, minor and patch numbers of the full version.

Added

• Add the build, test and install tests for a squeezed Elements
  • Obviously this test file has to be avoided in the second level tests
    in order to avoid an infinite recusion.
  • This doubles roughly the global testing time
  • This kind of tests get the label "Meta"
• Add checkQuality config files and output dir to gitignore template
  file (Manuel Grizonnet). Update Elements gitignore accordingly.
• Add checkQuality config file and output directory to gitignore template file.
• Add the Elements::Auxiliary namespace
  • add the alias Auxiliary::getVariableName = getAuxiliaryVariableName
  • and Auxiliary::getPath = getAuxiliaryPath
  • and Auxiliary::getLocations = getAuxiliaryLocation
• Add the Elements::Configuration namespace with its aliases
• Create the Elements::Services inline namespace. Add
  an ElementsServices = Elements::Services namespace alias for backward compatibility.
• Added the support for the templated class creation task #21291 (Nicolas Morisset)
• Add default docstring by default in init.py to silent sonar analyzer (Manuel Grizonnet)

Changed

• Use the same directory for binary python module as the regular ones. They
  are not placed in a separate PYTHONPATH entry anymore.
• Revert the guard logic for the template implementation files. This could
  hopefully force sonar to analyze them
• Generate the doxygen graphs as PNG instead of SVG. There is a bug in the SVG
  generation software (doxygen/doxygen#5724) and then
  the graphs are not displayed correctly in the web browser. This will be
  reverted back when the bug will be fixed, probably in doxygen 1.9.
• Convert the .icpp extension in the .tpp one. This is related to
  the issue https://euclid.roe.ac.uk/issues/15512 where Sonar is not
  parsing these *.icpp files. This conversion should solve this.
• Use only the major compiler version in the BINARY_TAG
  • Add detection of the major and minor version of the target compiler
  • Add a conditional use of the custom include_guard macro depending
    on the CMake version.
  • Remove all the branching for gcc older than version 4.8
  • Add the optional inclusion of local flag from LocalBuildFlags.cmake
  • Use the global keyword for the include_guard macro
  • Fix the CMake include_guard macro

Fixed

• Fixing the double indirection for the squeezed installation directory
  • Testing if the SOFTWARE_BASE_VAR is defined and not empty.
  • Testing if the ${SOFTWARE_BASE_VAR} is defined and not empty
  • in that case the ${${SOFTWARE_BASE_VAR}} value is used as the base
    installation directory.
  • otherwise /opt is chosen
    Please note that, by convention, SOFTWARE_BASE_VAR=EUCLID_BASE and
    EUCLID_BASE=/opt/euclid have to be found for the canonical Euclid
    installation
• Fixes for the EuclidEnv -> ElementsEnv change
• Attempt to fix the sphinx errors
  • fixing the issue https://euclid.roe.ac.uk/issues/17076
  • don't link the "modules.rst" file if it has not been generated
• Force the link of the stdc++ library to cure a conda problem. This is done on
  the only C program of the project.