Merge pull request #159 from LBL-EESA/2.2.0_release

Release notes for 2.2.0

doc/release/2.2.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Release Notes for TECA 2.2.0 #
+Sat Jan 26 09:32:56 PST 2019
+
+* Add support for Python 3 (-DTECA\_PYTHON\_VERSION=2,3)
+* Improve thread safety in the cf reader so that we no longer require thread safe
+  hdf5
+* Added optional configure flags to force the configure to fail if a coresponding
+  dependency is not found (-DREQUIRE\_XXX where XXX is names a dependency) 
+* Added optional configure flags giving finer grained control over the install
+  locations (-DLIB\_PREFIX, -DBIN\_PREFIX, -DINCLUDE\_PREFIX)  
+* Improved MPI detection on the Cray (-DENABLE\_CRAY\_MPICH)
+* Improved FindUDUnits cmake module to look in new system locations on Fedora
+* Added Python setuptools build/install mechanism and PyPi package.
+  `pip3 install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ teca` 

setup.py

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(name='teca',
-    version='2.1.3',
+    version='2.2.0rc1',
     author='Burlen Loring',
     author_email='[email protected]',
     description='The Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis',