[Tauruslib-users] Taurus 4 is now in the develop branch

[Carlos P. <cpa...@ce...>]

Hi all,

As you may know, we have been working for almost 3 years to implement 
the next major version of Taurus (version 4.x) in parallel with 
developing the 3.x version.

A very important milestone has been reached now with the promotion of 
version 4.x to the official develop branch.

Since the develop branch is the main base for new development, this 
means that any new features will from now on be added by default to the 
4.x versions, while 3.x will be "frozen" and mostly just see essential 
hotfixes.

The develop branch is also the base for the next official release, so  
hopefully the Jul16 release will already be of the 4.x series.

The official documentation still needs to be adapted (help wanted!), but 
the following "Taurus Enhancement Proposals" document the main 
changes from the 3.x to the 4.x:

http://sf.net/p/tauruslib/wiki/TEP3/
http://sf.net/p/tauruslib/wiki/TEP14/

We encourage you to try this new version and report any issues  or 
contribute changes to help us in getting taurus 4 ready for release as 
soon as possible.

Note: while the 4.x series is not 100% backwards-compatible with the 3.x 
series (hence the major version change), most 3.x based applications 
will work with 4.x out-of-the-box thanks to a compatibility layer that 
will log deprecation messages and hint ways to update the code to 4.x.

For testing, just check out the develop branch from the official git repo, 
or, alternatively, install with pip using:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pip install --egg \  
   git+http://git.code.sf.net/p/tauruslib/taurus.git@develop
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cheers,

Carlos (on behalf of the Taurus developers)


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