For some reason the automatic install of pandas will fail compilation
due to an issue with numpy. A workaround for this issue is to specify
numpy in `setup_requires` as mentioned in https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2434
Pandas is already widely used in WA and devlib for fast numerical table
manipulation in various instruments and output processors. Up to this
point, it has been an optional dependency.
Over the last couple of years, the package has become very wide spread,
and is available in repos for virtually every major distro. There is now
little reason not to require it as a mandatory dependency.
Changing the way target descriptions work from a static mapping to
something that is dynamically generated and is extensible via plugins.
Also moving core target implementation stuff under "framework".
In the process removed modules and boot_strap.py. Also Renamed extensions Plugins.
Louie is now monkey patched rather than containing a modified version in external
On Unix, pip will change current working directory to whereever it has
extracted the downloaded package. On Mac OSX, it does not appear to do
that. To get around this difference, specify paths in setup.py relative
to the location of setup.py, rather than the current working directory.
