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)