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ProjectQ-Framework / FermiLib

FermiLib: Open source software for analyzing fermionic quantum simulation algorithms

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Time for new release? #154

Closed babbush closed 6 years ago

babbush commented 6 years ago

We might want to consider making a new non-alpha release. Now that OpenFermion is out, if we are going to keep FermiLib around, moving it out of alpha makes some sense to me. @damiansteiger and @thomashaener, thoughts?

damiansteiger commented 6 years ago

Of course we can make a first beta release or another alpha release, both are fine with me.

To move forward to a 0.1 release, we would have to invest considerably more time in my opinion to

Fix a couple of things (such as e.g. the use of marshal #124 )
Perform a complete code review of all files and fix all the things which might come up there
Another manual test of the code on Windows
Same things for the plugins
...

Given my time budget, I don't see that happening in the next days (except another alpha or beta release).

babbush commented 6 years ago

let's move to beta then. I also do not have time to keep working on FermiLib (opposed to OpenFermion) except for very small things here and there.

damiansteiger commented 6 years ago

Sounds good. We will make a beta release tomorrow.

babbush commented 6 years ago

:+1:

damiansteiger commented 6 years ago

I looked up again all the recent changes. There aren't enough new features to justify a new pre-release and we want to fix a few of the above things before making the next release. As users can always install the latest version from GitHub that should be fine.