P4P release prep

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

All,

I'm preparing for an initial release of my P4P module (PVAccess for Python).
So I'd like to ask for test results from anyone who has time+interest in doing
them.  My hope is to do the release next week.

The most basic testing is to build and run the unit tests.  This is described in:

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/building.html

pip/virtualenv users should note the included requirements-*.txt files
and the "Multiple Python Versions" section.

If you have a PVAccess server, also exercise the get/put/monitor operations
with the include command line tools.

> python -m p4p.client.cli -h

Or programatically from eg. an ipython shell.

> from p4p.client.thread import Context
> ctxt = Context('pva')
> print ctxt.get('pv:name')

further example, and reference at https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/client.html

Those using the RPC operation will want to look at the helper API

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/rpc.html#client-example


Interested users might want to have a look at the new version of MASAR
save/restore which uses P4P.  A release of this will hopefully be following
soon after this P4P release.  https://github.com/mdavidsaver/masarService


the main documentation page

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/