Merge pull request #392 from openworm/release/0.9.0

Release/0.9.0

Author: mwatts15

.gitignore

@@ -47,3 +47,6 @@ snakefood
 # api docs are generated but housed in the docs/ directory with the handwritten
 # kind
 docs/api
+
+# pow clone'd databases
+.pow/

.travis.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 language: python
-python:
-- '2.7'
-- '3.4'
-- '3.6'
+matrix:
+  include:
+    - python: '3.7'
+      dist: xenial
+      sudo: true
+    - python: '3.6'
+    - python: '3.4'
+    - python: '2.7'
 before_install:
+- pip install --upgrade pip
 - pip install coveralls
-- pip install --upgrade pytest>=3.4.0
+- pip uninstall pytest --yes
+- pip install pytest>=3.4.0
 install:
 - python setup.py install
 - pow clone https://github.com/openworm/OpenWormData.git

INSTALL.md

@@ -4,36 +4,41 @@ The recommended way to get PyOpenWorm is from [pip](http://pip.readthedocs.org/e
 
     pip install pyopenworm
 
-Alternatively, you can grab the contents from GitHub:
+Alternatively, you can grab the latest on the development branch from GitHub:
 
     git clone https://github.com/openworm/PyOpenWorm.git
     cd PyOpenWorm
     python setup.py install
 
-Uninstall
-----------
-
-    pip uninstall PyOpenWorm
-
 Running tests
 -------------
 
 After checking out the project, tests can be run from the command line in the root folder with::
 
-    py.test
+    python setup.py test
 
 You may also run individual test cases with::
 
-    py.test -k <NameOfTest>
+    python setup.py test --addopts "-k <NameOfTest>"
+
+For example, where *test_muscles1* is a test in the *WormTest* suite of tests (see tests/WormTest.py)::
 
-For example, where *test_muscles*1 is a test in the *WormTest* suite of tests (see tests/WormTest.py)::
+    python setup.py test --addopts "-k test_muscles1"
 
-    py.test -k test_muscles1
+Python 2 support
+----------------
+Python 2.7 will be supported in PyOpenWorm through Python 2.7 end-of-life in 2020. Subsequent to that, any regressions for 2.7-based applications will only be fixed for the sake of OpenWorm projects.
+
+
+Uninstall
+----------
+
+    pip uninstall PyOpenWorm
 
 
 Optional
 --------
-There is an optional database storeage option called Sleepycat. You may encounter these issues if you pursue this option:
+There is an optional database storage option called Sleepycat. You may encounter these issues if you pursue this option:
 
 If your system does not come with bsddb, you will need to install it. On MacOSX, you can follow 
 [these instructions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16003224/installing-bsddb-package-python) for how to install 

LICENSE.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2014-2016 OpenWorm
+Copyright (c) 2014-2019 OpenWorm
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in