Alibuild

Release candidate 1 for aliBuild 1.4.0. **Do not use in production**. No need to update unless aliBuild does not currently work for you.

Install

This new version can be installed via PIP with:

bash

- Protect again aliBuild in alienv cornercase (327).
- Improve aliDoctor which now checks for environment and ~/.rootlogon.C presence.
- Improve reporting of not handled exceptions.
- Better error messages when the recipe is corrupted (336)
- Improve testing / coverage reports.

Fix issue when setuptools is not there (308), only visible when using aliBuild from git clone.

- Protect again aliBuild in alienv cornercase (327).
- Improve aliDoctor which now checks for environment and ~/.rootlogon.C presence.
- Improve reporting of not handled exceptions.
- Improve testing.
- Fix issue when setuptools is not there (308), only visible when using aliBuild from git clone.

- Now aliBuild gathers usage statistics and reports them to ALICE Offline (full details at https://github.com/alisw/alibuild/blob/master/ANALYTICS.md).
- The command `aliBuild clean [--aggressive-cleanup]` is now able to clean up more unneeded build by-products.
- Improved `aliDoctor <package name>` with human readable output and better indications of what is wrong.
- `aliBuild version` now prints version information.
- Improved development packages mode.
- Improved logs through out the whole build.
- Various cleanups and bug fixes.

- Add alidist hash to analytics (296)
- Improve and refactor aliDoctor (295)

- Fix a problem where in some cases a devel package was not rebuilt as it should (293).
- Polishing Google Analytics documentation (288).
- Various bug fixes and improvements (291, 289).