6.1.0

Added

• Add the FindXsData.cmake module in order to find the xsdata executable. xsData will
  replace at some point the usage of the pyxbgen tool
• Add trivial PlantUML example in Doxygen
• update sphinx config to auto retrieve current year and add display build date (Manuel Grizonnet)
• Initial implementation of the pytest coverage report
• Add 2 CMake variables to be passed to the pytest and nose test runners
  • PYTEST_EXTRA_OPTIONS for pytest
  • NOSE_EXTRA_OPTIONS for nosetests
• Add a CMake configure test to disable -D_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL
  • there are some cases where it misbehaves.
  • it only happens when the ELEMENTS_PARALLEL CMake flags is enabled
• Use Read The Docs HTML Sphinx theme if available (Manuel Grizonnet)
• Add the extra --output-junit option to the ctest call
  • the default call is now -T test --output-junit $(BUILDDIR)/Testing/JUnitTestReport.xml
  • add a CTEST_ARGS environment variable to recover the previous behavior
    (export CTEST_ARGS="-T test")
  • add a CTEST_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable to extend the already
    present options.
• Add the Sphinx support for the cmake directory
  • use the sphinxcontrib-moderncmakedomain
  • the documentation is provided by either
    • a local cmake/index.rst static file
    • a generated list from cmake/*.cmake if the former file doesn't exist
  • the documentation only appear if there are some rst inserted in the
    cmake files.
• Import the documentation from the Euclid Redmine site
  • the site https://euclid.roe.ac.uk/projects/elements/wiki
  • convert the textile source with pandoc:
    pandoc -s FAQ.textile -f textile -t rst -o FAQ.rst
• Add support for Markdown files in Sphinx
• Add the CMake EXTRA_SPHINX_FILES variable for files to be copied into the sphinx doc dir
• Implementation of the HTML tree merge
  • the merge is triggered by the MERGE_HTML_DOC_TREES=ON CMake option. By
    default it is set to OFF
  • the tree is generated at build/doc/html
  • the root of the tree is the doxygen one
  • the sphinx tree is located at build/doc/html/sphinx

Changed

• Move to the Keep a Changelog format
• Update the jenkins configuration for EDEN-3
• Change the obsolete failUnlessRaises methods that were deprecated in Python 3.1.
  • it is changed to assertRaises
  • it will be removed in Python 3.11
• replace the obsolete imp python module with the importlib one
• Improve the python coding style
  • more consistency with the import statements
  • use the __name__ for the global logger when applicable
  • define the global in capitals
• Move the pytest coverage results into build.*/cov/PyTest. Now both XML
  and HTML reports are generated.
• Use new CMake find_package layout
  • create a specific target
  • use caching for some variables only
• Make C++17 the default standard
• Restrict the -Wshadow warning to local variables only
• Change the sanitize style into a list
  • several sanitizers can be used
  • the sanitizers are passed with a CMake option string that uses spaces
    as separator (e.g: -DSANITIZE_STYLE="undefined thread")

Fixed

• Fix build of Logging.cpp in centos7 (Alejandro Álvarez Ayllón)
• Remove of the obsolete distutils python package. Use the sysconfig module
  to retrieve the default PYTHONPATH.
• Readd the needed -gcompile option for the profiling build type
• Fix the python multiprocessing spawning by adding the __main__ guard