Flamingpy

Improvements since the last release

* Relative paths cannot be used in README.md logos and were replaced with GitHub-hosted links. [5](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/5)

* C++ imports are now placed within `try` blocks to avoid interrupting non-compiled installations, such as the ones currently used by readthedocs. [5](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/5)

* Code coverage (quality) score was improved to a more acceptable `B-` level. [5](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/5)

Bug fixes

* Fixed a bug in [`pull_request_template.md`](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/2/commits/e30f2cb65daffece08b193ffc4b8fe7a8d90b90e). The template was not loading properly due to a whitespace problem. [#2](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/2)

* Fixed a bug in [`simulations.py`](flamingpy/simulations.py) and related examples. See [here](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/commit/771b0e66e5471c3696ac2e779a2df1cc49e5e684) for commit details. [#6](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/6)

Documentation changes

* Making Documentation more usable and consistent with other Xanadu projects [5](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/pull/5):
* API details and inheritance diagrams should be now correctly displayed.
* "Edit on Github" links were fixed
* The general style and section structures made more consistent with the company requirements and other packages such as StrawberryFields.
* Fixed the documentation links in `README.md`
* Minor updates to `doc/conf.py`, `doc/dev_requirements.txt`, and `doc/Makefile`.

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Nariman Saadatmand, [Ilan Tzitrin](https://github.com/ilan-tz)

See full commit details [here](https://github.com/XanaduAI/flamingpy/compare/v0.4.6a1...v0.4.9a1).

New features since the last private release

* This is the initial public release started from the private template and our sister project [FT-Stack](https://github.com/XanaduAI/ft-stack).
* The first Cython function for Monte Carlo sampling, mostly to provide cythonization samples and testbeds, has been added. See [`cpp_mc_loop.pyx`](flamingpy/cpp/cpp_mc_loop.pyx) and [`simulations.py`](flamingpy/benchmarks/simulations.py) for details. (backward incompatible)

Improvements

* More options for Installation from Source:
`setup.py` was updated to provide a no-compilation option for only installing (purely) Python libraries and separate options to compile `cmake` and `cython`-based codes. See the new [README.md](https://github.com/XanaduAI/ft-stack/blob/mc-cpp/README.md) for details.

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Nariman Saadatmand, [Ilan Tzitrin](https://github.com/ilan-tz)