[Atcollab-general] update on AT2.0

[Boaz N. <boa...@es...>]

Dear all,

After some discussion at ESRF, we decided to set August 25 as our date to finish AT2.0.
There is always more to be done, but we will do what we can and call it finished at that time.
The development is continuing in the at2devel branch in the subversion repository in SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/>

As mentioned, following this release, we will look for a migration strategy to using git and hosting
on github under the atcollab organization:
https://github.com/atcollab <https://github.com/atcollab>

At the moment, we are doing some cleaning and reorganization of some of the functions in the repository.
In particular, some categories have been added to atphysics, and functions are being moved to relevant folders.
https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/atphysics/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/atphysics/>

I may do something similar to the lattice directory
https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/lattice/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/lattice/>

I also created folders in the atdemos directory:
https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/atdemos/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/atmat/atdemos/>

There were already some demos here originally by Andrei, but I’ve been adding some new ones.
This is a big job, and I hope others will help test and improve these demos.
One principle I am trying to follow is to only use lattice files in the machine_data directory:
https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/machine_data/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/atcollab/code-0/HEAD/tree/branches/at2devel/machine_data/>
These lattice files are still rather varied- some use AT 1.2 style with global variables for the lattice
creation, some may include RF cavities and others not.  I hope we can use this directory to standardize on
what we consider best practice for lattice files.  Then if we make sure that all the demos in the atdemos directory
run properly, we can be confident that a good amount of AT works properly with these lattice files.

Glad to hear comments and get input or help before we release AT2.0.

Best regards,
Boaz