add IPython.start_ipython
A public API for starting a real (non-embedded) IPython instance.
should avoid API breakage in the future due to simple module renames, as has just happened with the removal of frontend.
For implementation purposes, I have added launch_new_instance as a classmethod on Application. I did this, because I wanted to add the ability to pass arguments to the instance, and didn't want to manually update every duplicate launch_new_instance.
closes#1537
The following line in setupbase.py was the problem. It assumes
that your CWD is always at the repository root. This patch removes
this assumption.
execfile(pjoin('IPython','core','release.py'), globals())
`setup.py anything` will halt with an informative error
if the submodules are unclean.
It will fetch the submodules if they are entirely absent.
Nothing will happen if it is not a git repo.
Unicode literals (u'foo') aren't valid in Python 3.{1,2} (they will be
again in 3.3, and I failed to notice this. This is a quick fix, will
discuss further on-list. But I want master to remain working for py3
users.
Don't build sphinx docs for sdists, it makes our source distributions unnecessarily large (and their generation much slower). Online access to docs is pervasive these days, and our docs are also much easier to build now, reducing the justification for keeping built docs in the source download.
Previously, the package list was manually specified, which meant that
it became out of date any time a package was added, and IPython would
become uninstallable. This would not be noticed for some time by
developers, who always use `setupegg.py --develop` or symlinks.
This update immediately revealed that IPython.zmq.tests and IPython.extensions.tests were never included in 0.11. Other than that, there is no difference in the package list.
The PDF docs are huge, take forever to build and aren't particularly
useful in practice being so unwieldy. We can always build and
manually upload a static copy if there's demand, but they don't really
serve much useful purpose anymore and bloat our downloads.
