phy 2.0 : first alpha release

[Cyrille Rossant]

Dear all

I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of phy 2.0. There are many new features, improvements, bug fixes, several new views, and an improved documentation. The code has been updated to PyQt5, and Python 2 support has been dropped. You'll find the release notes here. The main focus of this release has been the Template GUI, working with KiloSort 1, KiloSort 2, and Spyking Circus datasets.

To try it, you can install the development version on Github, dev branch. Note that the code in phycontrib has been merged into phy, and the phycontrib repository has been deprecated. There is a new little dependency library called phylib that contains I/O code and non-graphical utilities, which should be automatically installed if you follow the installation instructions of phy.

The documentation is available here. This version will be in alpha phase for a while in order to get sufficient user feedback. New features and bug fixes will be continuously pushed to the dev branch as user feedback will be coming in.

If you have written plugins for a past version of phy, please don't hesitate to contact me in order to get help with the update.

I'm looking forward to get your feedback, bug reports, and feature requests!

All the best,

Cyrille