Charm4py v0.11 released

[matthiasdiener]

@juanjgalvez
Nov 27 2018

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These are the major changes in the new release:

• Changed the name of the project from CharmPy to charm4py (more information on why
  we changed the name is in the forum).

• Support for interactive charm4py shell using multiple processes on one host has been added
  as a beta feature. Please provide feedback and suggestions in the forum or GitHub.

• Uses the recent major release of Charm++ (6.9)

• C-extension module can be built on Windows. Windows binary wheels on PyPI come with
  the compiled extension module.

• API change: method Chare.gather() has been removed to make the name available
  for user-defined remote methods. Use self.contribute(data, Reducer.gather, ...)
  instead.

• Some methods of charm are now remotely callable, like charm.exit()
  They can be used as any other remote method including as targets of reductions.
  For example: self.contribute(None, None, charm.thisProxy[0].exit)

• Can now use Python exit function instead of charm.exit()

• Other small fixes and improvements.