bpack v0.6.0 (15/01/2021)

• New numpy based backend.
• New :meth:bpack.enums.EByteOrder.get_native method.
• Now data types in descriptor definition can also be specified by means of special type annotation type (:class:bpack.typing.T) that accepts numpy-like format strings.
• Now it is no longer necessary to use the :func:dataclasses.dataclass decorator to define a descriptor. That way to define descriptors is depercated. All parameters previously specified via :func:dataclasses.dataclass (like e.g. frozen) shall now be passed directly to the :func:bpack.descriptors.descriptor decorator. With this change the use of :mod:dataclasses becomes an implementation detail.
• The size parameter of the :func:bpack.descriptors.field factory function is now optional.
• General improvements and code refactoring.
• Improved CI testing.
• Added automatic spell checking of documentation in CI.
• Backward incompatible changes:
  • :class:bpack.enums.EBaseUnits, :class:bpack.enums.EByteOrder and :class:bpack.enums.EBitOrder enums moved to the new :mod:bpack.enums module (the recommended way to access enums is directly form :mod:bpack, e.g. bpack.EByteOrder)
  • :data:bpack.enums.EByteOrder.BIG and :data:bpack.enums.EByteOrder.LITTLE enumerates have been renamed into :data:bpack.enums.EByteOrder.BE and :data:bpack.enums.EByteOrder.LE respectively
  • classes decorated with the :func:bpack.descriptors.descriptor decorator no longer have the len method automatically added; the recommended way to compute the size of a descriptors (class or instance) is to use the :func:bpack.descriptros.calcsize function
  • the default behavior of the :func:bpack.decorators.calcsize has been changed to return the size of the input descriptor in the same base units of the descriptor itself; previously the default behavior was to return the size in bytes