Alpacadsc 0.20.0 release notes

October 19, 2020

Alpacadsc 0.20.0 is a major refactor of the 0.10.0 code base. The new codebase attempts to use a more traditional pattern for Flask appliations. The Flask extension ‘flask-restx’ is now used for handle the REST API.

Profiles from previous version of alpacadsc are compatible with this release.

What’s new in AlpacaDSC 0.20.0

Encoder driver plugins

AlpacaDSC now can discover encoder driver plugins at runtime. The plugins are python modules which are short and easy to create for new DSC devices. The web based setup page will be aware of any detected drivers as well.

Bugfixes

  • Numerous improvements to documentation.
  • Documentation will now build on readthedocs.
  • PEP 8 compliance improvements.
  • Improved package building.