Initial release to PyPi

[robwandrews]

At what point should we push the initial release to PyPi? I'm leaning towards pushing after #6 and #13 are resolved with the 0.1 tag.

Thoughts?

[wholmgren]

Sounds good for the code.

What should we do about the tutorials? My suggestion is to just promise that one good tutorial works at this point. I can fix up, or even remove, the module level ones later. Another idea is to make a new repo under the pvlib org with the tutorials (at least the detailed ones). Not sure if that would be confusing to people that are new to git/github/python.

We should also double check that there are no big issues that we want to fix in the docs.

[robwandrews]

The tutorials on the dev branch of the sandia site are pretty good, and fixed for the new package layout, I'll port those over

[wholmgren]

@Calama-Consulting do you have an approximate date in mind for the 0.1 release? I'll knock out a few of these easy issues this afternoon.

[robwandrews]

Let's aim for the end of this week, to give me time to make sure the tutorial are solid. We will also need to resolve #9, @wholmgren can you handle this as well? I beleive we had decided on the option with a modified setup.py which allows a user to manually install spa if they download the package from github and add their spa C code.

[wholmgren]

Sounds good!

[wholmgren]

Add #24 to 0.1 milestones.

[wholmgren]

Looks pretty easy to make a conda package. Should we do that for 0.1 or wait for a future release? I don't use Anacondas but it seems to be all the rage these days, especially for people that are new to Python e.g. former PVLIB_MATLAB users.

[bmu]

+1 for a conda package. I use anaconda on Windows and linux. However I think its fine to wait for the next release. Maybe I could create the package than.

[robwandrews]

Sounds good, it doesn't look too involved, I will add a conda wrapper and upload to binstar in addition to pypi for 0.1 . I think it will increase the ability to uptake, especially for new windows users.

[dacoex]

Please ping me when you release the package to pypi.

I will adapt the Ubuntu package accordingly and propose a change in the docs for pointing at this repository:
https://code.launchpad.net/~pythonxy/+archive/ubuntu/pythonxy-devel/+packages?field.name_filter=pvlib

[bmu]

What about the release?