Change history

2016-02-10

• moved to package format

v0.2.0: 2016-02-25

• colourlog renamed logsupport.

v0.3.5: 2016-11-25

• Python type hints.

• Write exit_on_exception exceptions to log, not via print().

• whisker.qtclient.WhiskerOwner offers new pingack_received signal.

v0.3.6: 2016-12-01

• Changed from PySide to PyQt5 (fewer bugs).

v0.3.6: 2017-03-23

• Removed annotations from alembic.py; alembic uses inspect.getargspec(), which chokes with ValueError: Function has keyword-only arguments or annotations....

• Support PyQt 5.8, including removing calls to QHeaderView.setClickable, which has gone: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qheaderview.html

v0.1.10: 2016-06-22

• Updates for Starfeeder.

v0.1.11: 2016-06-23

• Further updates for Starfeeder; supporting structured handling of ClientMessage.

v1.0: 2017

• Update for new cardinal_pythonlib.

v1.0.3: 2017-09-07

• use SQLAlchemy 1.2 pool_pre_ping feature

v1.0.4: 2018-09-18

• PyQt5 and Twisted added as requirements

• Sphinx docs

• updated signal debugging for PyQt5 in debug_qt.py

• general tidy

• ValidationError removed from whisker.qt; is in whisker.exceptions (previously duplicated)

• additional randomization functions

v1.1.0: 2018-09-21 to 2018-09-22

• updated required version to cardinal_pythonlib>=1.0.26 in view of bugfix there

• there were two classes named WhiskerTask; renamed one to WhiskerTwistedTask and the other to WhiskerQtTask. Also renamed Whisker to WhiskerRawSocketClient for clarity.

• public docs at https://whiskerpythonclient.readthedocs.io/

• no [source] links; see https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/2139

  • removed typing==3.5.2.2 dependency and restricted to Python 3.5 (as per cardinal_pythonlib) to see if that fixed the autodoc/RTD problem; no

  • no help from changing Sphinx theme either

  • no help from changing sys.path from conf.py

  • see https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/2139

  • tried /readthedocs.yml as per that and https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/yaml-config.html

• renamed layer_index to layer_key and changed its hint in whisker.random.ShuffleLayerMethod.

v1.2.0 to 1.3.0: 2020-02-09

• Added whisker.__version__.

• whisker.convenience.load_config_or_die() has a new config_filename argument.

• Requirement for Python 3.6+. (Because of cardinal_pythonlib.)

• New function whisker.convenience.update_record().