v1.4.2

This release represents few changes in the actual user-facing package, but significant updates to validation testing, packaging practices, and typing. Specifically:

• There is now a full suite of automated pytest validation tests verifying that anaStruct does, in fact, give the same results as Euler-Bernoulli analytical equations. Thank you to all the new contributors who helped add these tests!
• The file structure and package definitions in anaStruct have been updated to modern best practices, including swapping from a setup.py file to pyproject.toml, updating all the GitHub workflows, and adding some default/recommended VS Code configuration to help any contributors to this package work more easily!
• Full type checking has been implemented throughout anaStruct, and a py.typed marker file has been added for anyone using anaStruct as a library (you can remove those # type: ignores on your anastruct imports now!) In typing everything, a few scattered bugs were also identified and fixed (nothing that would have given a wrong result, but several little things that would have caused error messages), especially around setting loads on multiple elements at once.

What's Changed

• Add some default VS Code configuration by @smith120bh in #134
• Validation of a simply-supported beam with UDL by @smith120bh in #136
• Documentation by @someparsa in #135
• Convert from setup.py to pyproject.toml by @smith120bh in #139
• Simple beam with a point load validation by @abigailwong1 in #141
• Validation with Simply Supported Beam and Two Equally Spaced Point Loads by @liamjsy in #142
• Cantilever beam w UDL validation by @abigailwong1 in #147
• Fix missing indent on a test by @smith120bh in #150
• Adding three validation cases for beams by @BehnamClearCalcs in #148
• Added validation cases by @liamjsy in #143
• Explicitly set the content-type for README.md by @smith120bh in #160

Dependabots

• Add almost-strict typing to all of anastruct by @smith120bh in #152
• Bump pylint from 2.16.2 to 2.17.4 by @dependabot in #153
• Bump matplotlib from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1 by @dependabot in #156
• Bump pytest from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1 by @dependabot in #154
• Bump black[jupyter] from 23.1.0 to 23.3.0 by @dependabot in #157
• Bump mypy from 1.0.1 to 1.3.0 by @dependabot in #155
• Bump pytest-describe from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0 by @dependabot in #158
• Bump numpy from 1.24.2 to 1.24.3 by @dependabot in #159

New Contributors

• @abigailwong1 made their first contribution in #141
• @liamjsy made their first contribution in #142
• @BehnamClearCalcs made their first contribution in #148

Full Changelog: release-v1.4.1...release-v1.4.2