It has been > 6 months since the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The test suite uses features from the 1.2 release of qsymm.

Christoph Groth authored 6 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 6 years ago

This allows third party modules to subclass Kwant's cdef classes.
https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/sharing_declarations.html#search-paths-for-definition-files

Also update CI to install qsymm on relevant platforms, and update
pytest config to skip kwant.qsymm tests when qsymm is not installed

Co-authored-by: Pablo Piskunow <pablo.perez.piskunow@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Varjas <dvarjas@gmail.com>

Kwant no longer builds with Cython 0.22, and our oldest
supported operating systems ship with at least 0.24.3
as of now.

Closes #204

This can always be resurrected from Git if it is really needed,
but at the moment its just 3000 lines that aren't used.

Closes #188.

Previously, the numpy 'include_dirs' would be shadowed by
any 'include_dirs' provided in 'build.conf'. We want to avoid
burdening people with remembering to specify the numpy 'include_dirs'
every time, and if custom numpy headers is the desired behaviour, these
can still be specified in 'build.conf', and will take precedence.

This completes 9fdd41e8.

We use Cython's import mechanism to use the the same lapack used
by Scipy, so we no longer need to explicitly link against lapack
or blas.

This reverts commit 1e6c0860, reversing
changes made to 2c5da944.

The changes to Kwant's Lapack wrappers depend on features from
Scipy 0.16, so it cannot be merged into stable branch, which
depends on Scipy 0.14.

We use Cython's import mechanism to use the the same lapack used
by Scipy, so we no longer need to explicitly link against lapack
or blas.

I assume that most people encounter the tutorial example scripts by
reading the documentation, and not by viewing the tutorial subdirectory
of a checked-out Kwant source.

That's the motivation for moving all the manipulations of tutorial
scripts from setup.py to doc/Makefile.  Previously, a successful 'make
html' would require a preceding execution of 'setup.py build_tut'.  Now,
a simple 'make html' is enough.

While at it, I reorganized where the example scripts and their outputs
are stored.  Everything is now in 'doc/source/code' with its three
subdirectories 'download' (to be shown to readers), 'include' (with
include markers), and 'figure' (figure generation & figures).  This
organization is clearer and also makes the generation of figures
separate from the tutorial.

lowercase FAQ.rst, FAQ.py, etc., give meaningful names to labels,
and stop building an user-visible tutorial/faq.py

Add check for this in setup.py to avoid potentially confusing
tracebacks later.

Remove fixes for unsupported versions of numpy, scipy and matplotlib.

This is the only sane behaviour, otherwise we don't know if our
build is misconfigured because 'build.conf' was silently used instead.

Fixes #133.

Our baseline is Debian stable (Jessie) where possible.  The only
dependency that cannot be satisfied is sympy; Debian stable does not
have a Python 3 package for this.  We set the required sympy version to
that present in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

This allows to provide a helpful error message when someone tries to
import Kwant with Python 2.

Note that I moved the version code into a module of its own:
kwant.version.  The rationale is to separate this code from unrelated
stuff in kwant._common that requires various external libs.  The
kwant.version module should work on its own without any third-party
libraries.

Previously the testing/importing 'continuum' would fail if sympy was not
installed. Now we do the following:

    * add sympy as an optional dependency in 'extras_require'
    * force pytest to ignore tests in packages that have uninstalled
      dependencies by defining a hook in 'conftest.py'
    * use the 'class as a module' hack when importing 'continuum'.
      When sympy is not installed the continuum module will be replaced
      with an instance of 'ExtensionUnavailable' that will raise a runtime
      error on attribute access.
    * no warning is raised if sympy is not installed (it is an
      optional dependency).

This reverts commit e34b4b73.

It has the same problems as setup_requires.

Packages that are mentionned there are installed in a way that bypasses
pip:
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/?highlight=setup_requires#installation-bundles

These prefixes were visible, for example when invoking
"./setup.py --help build".

Before we used the include_dir argument to setup(), but this caused problems:
kwant/kwant#48

Commit a8b0463e turned out to be a bad
idea: unlike on Debian, on many platforms the numpy headers are not
available in the default include path.

    1. Now can be compiled without MUMPS
       (previously exception was thrown)
    2. Gives sensible error message for Git install,
       but without installed Cython.