4.1.3 Release

Template 4.1.3 Release Notes

Bugs

• Introduced a small edit to avoid warning message introduced by deprecation of yaml.load(input) (#110)

4.1.2 Release

Template 4.1.2 Release Notes

Bugs

• Pip v.10 update broke our installation method in template. We changed our suggested installation method by removing config_python.py and suggesting user call pip install -r config/requirements.txt directly . (#106 #107)

4.1.1 Release

Template 4.1.1 Release Notes

User notes

Makes two small edits to the readme.

• Adds link to the GSLab RA manual in the opening paragraph.
• Adds some run.py dos and don'ts.

4.1.0 Release

Template 4.1.0 Release Notes

User notes

• Compatibility with gslab_python v4.1.0.

• misc.scons_debrief()'s only argument is now args. See example in SConstruct:
  https://github.com/gslab-econ/template/blob/e5659df655beab7ca7db3fb39336873814414d49/analysis/SConstruct#L64

• debrief_args are now stored in config_global.yaml instead of SConstruct.

• SConstruct files formerly specifying env['PATHS'] must switch to specifying env['CONFIG'].

• User currently using v4.0.0 must update config_global.yaml to include executable_names and prereq_checks blocks as in the current

Features

• We now create a config_user.yaml (if missing) from a boilerplate file stored in config/. (#96)

• We now support creating a file listing provenance of input in ./release.

• We now support two SCons subdirectories: analysis and paper_slides. (#62)

• We reduced software dependencies to shell, Python 2.7, git, and LyX. (#63, #65)

• We have scripts to help you install package dependencies. (#63)

• We added demonstration scripts in analysis. Currently we have Stata, R, MATLAB, Python, and a demonstration of the "Anything" builder. (#64)

Misc

• Update our raw data storage and release protocol to include state_of_input (#59 #60)

• No more hyphens in code and file names, we're team-underscores now. (#68)

• We now require installing gslab_stata when calling Stata from our template (#66)

v4.0.0

Template 4.0.0 Release Notes

The three most important changes to the template as a part of this release are:

1. Compatibility with gslab-python 4.0.0.
2. New and improved pre-requisite testing.
3. We no longer version the .sconsign.dblite. This allows for users on different platforms to build fresh clones or new branches from the cache instead of having to rebuild the entire repository. See here and links therein for background.

Features

• Uses gslab-python 4.0.0.
• Moves setup.py to configuration_test.py and improves pre-requisite testing.
• Uses atexit to perform exit logging (see here).

Bugs

• We no longer version the .sconsign.dblite

Misc

• Readme edits (see here and here)
• Switches to default metropolis beamer theme (see here)
• Small naming and formatting changes within SConstruct

0.0.0

Made edits to reflect changes in gslab_python