Changelog 2021.9.10.dev1

Sep 10, 2021 • Anders Berkeman, Carl Drougge, and Sofia Hörberg

Highlights

• new --debuggable argument to help you debug methods.
• auto-discover on method packages, so you can skip methods.conf.

Board

• many small tweaks.

Configuration file

• you can use auto-discover on a method package, making methods.conf optional in that package.
  • ax init now uses this for the package (dev by default) you get in the new project.

Dataset

• dw.add() can take an existing DatasetColumn / tuple (like the columns dict in the contructor already could)
• dataset.txt is no longer produced, as ax ds is more convenient anyway.

Server

• new --debuggable argument that runs methods with a controlling terminal so that breakpoint() and similar will work. This does however make the server kill itself if a method fails.

Shell

• ds command updates:
  • new --location / -w argument that shows the storage location of each column.
  • --foo_bar style arguments are now --foo-bar (for consistency):
    • --non-empty-chain
    • --suppress-columns
    • --suppress-errors
    • --suppress-minmax
• rename urd and board commands to urd-server and board-server, for consistency and to free up urd for:
• new urd command to look at your urd db.
• new script command that shows information about build scripts.
• job arguments can be specified as :urdlist:[entry].

And finally

• more tests.
• various bug fixes / minor improvements of course.

Note: Python 2 is still supported, but will likely be unsupported soon.

Additional Resources

The Accelerator’s Homepage (exax.org)
The Accelerator on Github/exaxorg
The Accelerator on PyPI
Reference Manual