0.18 release

[FreezyLemon]

Is there a roadmap on what's planned to be included in the next release? I see the 0.17 milestone still exists but nothing similar for 0.18.

[YeungOnion]

Was just thinking about adding that milestone, figure we've got a decent batch of breaking changes, so it would be nice to have this much break over just one release instead of over 0.18 and 0.19 - no guarantees for 0.19, but it would be nice.

[YeungOnion]

The few things that may not break much code

• error handling from fallible construction of distributions and special function evaluations
  • expecting most usage is robust against this because unwrap was likely with how general the error type previously was.
• some generics with traits will be overridden to associated types
  • most Rust programmers rely on type inference,

to increasing likelihood of breaking code with changes

• multivariate distributions, guaranteed breaking
• some traits are changing API, i.e. a fix to Traits in statistics::traits should not require return type be Option #295 would break most cases.

[FreezyLemon]

It would be nice to have the new feature flags in a release. Especially disabling the nalgebra feature can be very useful to reduce compile times. It looks like some of the things in the 0.18 milestone have not moved in a while. Could we get a 0.18 release so we can take advantage of some of the changes?

EDIT: Including the nalgebra update #249 is probably a good idea

[YeungOnion]

Thanks for pinging, I think we can do that. I've definitely stalled while implementing changing the statistics traits.