Change history

v0.1.0 – Feb–Mar 2016

• Started. Released 21 Mar 2016.

Others, to v0.4.2

• Not detailed in full.

v0.5.0 – Mar 2017

• Changed from PySide to PyQt 5.8, following other projects (e.g. Starfeeder), as this is more stable and also allows Python 3.5.

• Added more test code (including command-line tests) for trial planning, following a query from YC, but this seems fine.

v0.6.0 – Sep 2018

• Documentation from OpenOffice/PDF to Sphinx/HTML.

• Library upgrades:

  • alembic from 0.8.4 to 1.0.0

  • python-dateutil from 2.5.1 to 2.7.3

  • whisker from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

  • SQLAlchemy from 1.2.0b2 to 1.2.12 (to fix Unknown system variable 'tx_isolation' bug with MySQL 8.0.12)

  • sadisplay from 0.4.8 to 0.4.9

  • sqlalchemy-utils from 0.32.13 to 0.33.5

• Note that if you install MySQL Connector/Python system-wide (via the MySQL installer), it may not be available from a virtual environment; in that case, use pip install mysql-connector-python.

• MAX_VERSION_LENGTH set to its proper value of 147.

• Options to restrict the choice holes offered. See whisker_serial_order.models.ChoiceHoleRestriction. New field: config_stage.choice_hole_restriction.

• Change to randomization method to prioritize “correct side” counterbalancing with DWOR mechanism. See whisker_serial_order.task.SerialOrderTask.create_trial_plans(). New field: config_stage.side_dwor_multiplier.

• Cleanup of Alembic scripts, as per

  • https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/issues/46/mysqltinyint-display_width-1-vs-saboolean

  • https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/issues/374/alembic-detecs-type-change-from-tinyint

• Options to restrict the choice serial order position offered. See whisker_serial_order.models.SerialPosRestriction`. New field: config_stage.serial_pos_restriction. Try this:

  whisker_serial_order --testtrialplan --seqlen 4 --choice_hole_restriction "1,3" --serial_pos_restriction "1,2;3,4" --side_dwor_multiplier 3
  

• Docs at https://whiskerserialorder.readthedocs.io/

To do

Todo

GUI/console problem could be improved.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/whiskerserialorder/checkouts/latest/docs/source/development_notes.rst, line 373.)