BEAST-Fitting
Add development docs for working with different versions
Now that we have a v2.0 and v1.4 (#510), I'm not sure about the procedure for working with the two branches. I suspect I could find info on the internet, but since we already have some basic git instructions for doing development, it would be nice to add something about this too.
I think the procedure would be to have two conda environments, one for v1.4 and one for the dev version - v2.0. Does this make sense? This was the idea behind the "production" instructions.
Yes, the conda environment part makes sense! What I haven't figured out is how to check out the v1.4 branch, and then do any development on it.
@astronomeralex and I found a method that perhaps works:
git fetch upstream
git checkout upstream/v1.4 -b v1.4
But when I do python setup.py develop, the output text says Processing dependencies for beast==2.0.dev2222. Is that because v1.4 and v2.0 are still the same, or because something is processing incorrectly?
Apologies, I hadn't pushed the last few commits I did to the v1.4 branch for the v1.4 release. Doh! If you pull the v1.4 branch again, it should now report 1.4.1.dev is your base version.