[MODEST] Release of AMUSE 12.0

[Edwin van der Helm]

Steven and everyone else who worked on this,

I know I haven't been actively involved in AMUSE for a while, but this
looks like really great work.

Really awesome,

Edwin

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 03:15, Steven Rieder <steven at rieder.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are happy to announce the release of AMUSE version 12.0!
> Please see below for the release notes and main changes in this version.
> If you find any bugs or other issues, please report them via the AMUSE
> github page:
> https://github.com/amusecode/amuse/issues
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Rieder, on behalf of the AMUSE team
>
> ---------
>
> Release notes for AMUSE 12.0
>
> In this version, the main change we are introducing is that AMUSE is now
> installable via pip (though non-python prerequisites like compilers, mpi
> and such still need to be installed beforehand).
> The command 'pip install amuse' will install the meta-package 'amuse',
> which depends on 'amuse-framework' (the amuse core libraries, without any
> community codes), 'amuse-tests' and 'amuse-<NAME>', where <NAME> is any of
> the current community codes*.
> The main benefit of this method is that AMUSE should be much easier and
> faster to install, especially when only one or a few community codes are
> needed. The "old" installation method will remain available as well.
>
> Another change is that we're now consistently naming the community codes:
> interfaces are always imported as:
>
> from amuse.community.codename.interface import CodeName
>
>
> As a result, the module names 'phiGRAPE' and 'hermite0' have been renamed
> to 'phigrape' and 'hermite' respectively, and interface
> name MakeMeAMassiveStar is now MMAMS. The old names are still available for
> compatibility reasons, these may at some point receive a deprecation
> warning when used. This is unfortunately not technically possible for
> phiGRAPE due to case-insensitivity in some filesystems, so that code can
> only be used with the new, more consistent naming from now on (please
> update your scripts where necessary).
>
> AMUSE 12 will also be the last version aimed mainly at Python2 (though it
> is compatible with Python 3). From next year, Python 2 is no longer
> supported by Python, and also for AMUSE it's time to move on. AMUSE 13 (to
> be released later this year) will be aimed at Python 3 only.
>
> Other changes in this release include improved async support. It is now
> possible to queue multiple async requests per code. Async request
> objects can serve as input arguments to code calls.
>
> Please let us know via https://github.com/amusecode/amuse/issues if you
> run into any problems, have a feature request or if you have any other
> questions.
>
> *: for a few of the "DOWNLOAD_ONLY" codes, we don't have packages yet
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