PUBLIC NOTICE: Repository and packages changes

[huguesv]

Important: If you have a dependency on the azure package, make sure that you pin the version number either to the specific version you are using or to azure<1.0. The next release of azure will be marked 1.0, and will have some breaking changes.

You may have noticed that we've been working on splitting the Azure package into several smaller packages. You will be able to pip install azure and get everything, but you'll also be able to just install the parts you need pip install azure-servicebus.

So far this work was done in the dev branch, but I've just merged those changes into master. We're aiming to do a release to PyPI (pre-release) end of this week or early next week.

As part of this reorganization, the Azure storage team is taking ownership of the storage runtime library. We've moved the code to a new repository: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-python.

You'll notice new storage features soon, the first one being support for File Service. We'll be porting the storage issues over there and take care of the storage pull requests.

I'll update this with the latest status during the week.

[huguesv]

I've uploaded rc1 to PyPI today.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/azure/1.0.0rc1

[huguesv]

I've just uploaded rc2 to PyPI. Changes are isolated to readme.rst and setup.py files (+ updating version).

If you are on azure 0.11, you need to uninstall first. If not, you should get an error if you try to install 1.0.0rc2.

readthedocs has been updated:
http://azure-sdk-for-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

It now includes articles with instructions on using the new ARM libraries:
http://azure-sdk-for-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/resourcemanagement.html
http://azure-sdk-for-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/resourcemanagementauthentication.html
http://azure-sdk-for-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/resourcemanagementstorage.html
http://azure-sdk-for-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/resourcemanagementcomputenetwork.html

storage has its own readthedocs:
http://azure-storage.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[huguesv]

1.0.0/0.20.0 now on PyPI.