pyFAI-2024.01

• Possibility to define the detector orientation:
  • It is the position of the origin of the detector at any of the 4 corner of the image
  • Uses the EXIF nomenclature where pyFAI's (default) orientation is tagged 3
  • Offers compatibility with calibration made by Diotas (where orientation=2 since images are flipped)
  • Expose the feature in the calib2 GUI for custom detectors.
  • Tutorial on the usage
  • New sub-version of the PoniFile API (2.1) for this feature
• Expose the number of corners of a detector pixel (feature unused for now)
• Refactor pyFAI-benchmark tool with better looking reults (Thanks Edgar)
• Possibility to integrate in 2D with any second dimension unit:
  • No more limited to the azimuthal angle chi
  • Several new units have been added
  • Offers the qx/qy integration as example
• Support for Detris Pilatus4 detector both with Si and CdTe sensors (thanks to Max Burian)
• Support XRDML formt (compatibility with MAUD software)
• Multigeometry gains a reset() method to free some memory with optimized garbage collection.
• Support pathlib when reading-PONI files
• Change in the build system:
  • Drop of setup.py the build system based on distutils/numpy.distutils/setuptools
  • Enforce the use of meson-python
  • Move the sources of the code into src directory
  • Support for Python 3.7-3.12 (requires silx v2 for 3.12) + Provide debian packages for debian12 but ubuntu 20.04 is too old and lack meson-python
• Facts and figures:
  • 600+ commits; 120 pull-requests
    *with the contribution of:
    Edgar Gutierrez Fernandez
    Jérôme Kieffer.