xraypy/xraylarch: 2025.2.1

[2025.2.1 - 2025-07-29]

Larix improvements and bugfixes:

• allow adding feff paths without data
• cleanups for XAS auto-normalization, and avoiding overprocessing
• revert to using read_gsexdi for 'epics stepscan' data, cleanups
• exafs_panel: avoid reproccessing all groups with form values/setting for current group.
• move data processing tasks to separate module, and to use the file list from main window
• add register/run callbacks from controller for when the Larix Groupname changes -- used for data proceesing tasks
• fix bad_channels when reading in multi-element detector data
• editing plot preferences will push to current plot displays
• exafs_panel: better separation of plotting and processing parameters
• exafs_panel: better isolation of group processing parameters, and copy of parameters.
• lincombo: fix fits in k-space (thanks AJ Kropf), and LCF can now use chi*k**3
• lincombo: add popup warning when asking to fit data in k-space when chi(k) is not yet available
• feffit: add csv_path_report() method to FeffitDataset, use tabulate if installed.

xraylarch library:

• fix a bug in mback_norm method (tj-eldridge <thomas.eldridge@esrf.frr)
• tolerate very short pre-edge and normalization ranges, reducing npre and nnorm if necessary
• increase max size of column file
• more uniform use of numpy asmatrix
• general cleanups, force group to have a name attribute
• fix support older sessions/projects
• fix error with polyfit and very short post-edge regions
• fix Rixs bm16 update (Mauro Rovezzi mauro.rovezzi@esrf.fr)
• better close for SQLite databases.
• fix correlated Debye model: force path coords to float
• xafsplots: add scale_window to plot_chir()
• add dict_report method to FeffPath to return plain dict of values

Other GUIs:

• XRF Map: read dtfactor directly from HDF5 if available, otherwise try to compute it.
• XRF Map: even more straightforward Read Master
• XRF Map: remove use of scandb in read_xrm master file, skip empty rows
• XRF Map: dont trim sinograms on XRD data
• Larch GUI: make sure larch buffer starts showing end of output text

General development and maintenance:

• add issue templates
• add darkdetect to dependcies, update constructor script
• make sure darkdetect dependency installs with plain pip install
• update MANIFEST, using pyproject.toml, remove setup.cfg
• update readme, change format
• add function and larch -n CLI option to install nightly build.
• add bash scripts to run tests with more care for temporary resources.