GC3Pie 2.5.0 released

[Riccardo Murri]

Dear GC3Pie users,

We are proud to announce release 2.5.0 of GC3Pie. Among a few bugfixes,
this release introduces support for writing "daemons", i.e., processes that
detach from the console and continue running in the background continually
responding to events. A typical use case is watching a filesystem directory
and submitting jobs to analyze files are that are created there.

Additional information is also available through:

* the GC3Pie documentation website: http://gc3pie.readthedocs.io/
* the mailing-list: gc3...@googlegroups.com

Yours,
the GC3Pie development team


GC3Pie 2.5
==========

GC3Pie is an open-source Python framework to help write portable
computational workflows that work on cloud, clusters and grid
resources seamlessly. GC3Pie provides the building blocks for the
development of Python scripts that combine several applications into a
dynamic workflow.

GC3Pie is free software, released under the GNU Lesser General Public
License version 3.


Installation and system requirements
------------------------------------

GC3Pie has been tested and is supported on the following GNU/Linux
distributions:

* Ubuntu: 14.04, 16.04, and 18.04
* MacOSX

GC3Pie should be able to run on any platform where Python 2.6 or 2.7
is available.

You can find source releases and installation instructions at:

http://gc3pie.readthedocs.org/en/v2.5.0/users/install.html

If the installation script does not work for you, please contact us
through the mailing-list (see "Support and Contact" below).


Upgrading from previous releases
--------------------------------

Those who are using pre-release version of GC3Pie are encouraged to
re-install using the new installation script; see:

http://gc3pie.readthedocs.org/en/v2.5.0/users/install.html#quick-start

If you cannot do this or the installation script does not work for
you, please contact us through the mailing-list (see "Support and
Contact" below).


Support and Contact
-------------------

Please direct all support requests to the mailing-list first. You can
subscribe, view recent posts and search the archives at:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/gc3pie

Known issues, together with their likely causes and remedies, have
been listed at:

https://gc3pie.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.0/users/troubleshooting.html

Bug reports, feature and enhancement requests
can be reported at:

https://github.com/uzh/gc3pie/issues


Further information
-------------------

More details can be found on the project's website:

http://gc3pie.readthedocs.io/
http://github.com/uzh/gc3pie

(on behalf of the GC3Pie development team)
Riccardo