Bug fixes and windows compatibility

We have finally set up AppVeyor for the continuous integration of SoS under windows system. A number of small problems were identified and fixed to make sure SoS works properly under windows. The AppVeyor test environment is especially important because none of the core developers uses windows as primary machine so it is very easy to break SoS under windows without such an automatic test environment.

Beta 2 release... finally.

A lot has been done in the past few weeks to refine SoS, improve compatibility with windows, and add small but useful features to make SoS usable. I am glad to announce the release of SoS 0.9.8 today, which marks the beta 2 stage of SoS. At this stage, SoS can be considered feature completely, fairly stable, and can be used in daily data analysis. Please feel free to test SoS and let us know if you have any comment.

Approaching a 0.9.8 milestone

This release introduces a few new features that are very useful for interactive data analysis. We should be able to release 0.9.8 after the dust settles.

Beta 2 release of sos

SoS reaches beta 2 with the release of version 0.9.7. Interface changes will still happen but are expected to be rare.

A working task queue system.

This version marks the beta release of the task queue feature of SoS, which allows you to submit jobs to remote servers and task queues, even if they do not share the same file system. Please check the sos documentation for more details.

Preliminary remote execution features

This release marks the debut of the remote execution feature of SoS, using which you can submit tasks to remote servers and task queues. Please checkout the remote execution documentation for details.

step-by-step execution in Jupyter notebook

This version introduces side-by-step execution in Jupyter notebook, which makes it much easier to debug your script. It also introduces a magic %skip to skip cells while keeping its output.

Side panel for scratch execution and display of preview content

This release introduces a side panel that can be used as a scratch pad to execute arbitrary statements without affecting the main notebook. It is also used to display output of %preview magic.

An improved jupyter frontend with bash and python2 kernels.

0.9.2

Minor update to test name

A new jupyter frontend for SoS

The jupyter frontend now has cell-level and toolbar dropdown menus to switch cell level and global kernel.