Enhanced flexibility

Changes to support:

• user-defined output folders
• standard stars of a different CCD binning than the science and calibration data
• instructions for Windows users

Major update

This release contains significant upgrades to the PyWiFeS reduction package, including (but not limited to):

• Making the package pip-installable;
• Updating the architecture and dependencies for recent python3 modules;
• Enabling compatibility for most observing modes under the newly automated 2.3m telescope operations as well as the previous manual (TAROS) telescope control;
• Updating bad pixel masks, and various calibration algorithms and reference files;
• Automating extraction of sources and splicing of cubes and spectra;
• Enabling the package to run in 'pipeline' mode at SSO;
• Improved documentation.

Improved wavelength solution

This version corrects a wavelength shift of ~0.1Å across the slitlets in the final reduced cubes, so that the final cubes are now as precise as advertised during the wavelength solution derivation step.

Bad Bug fix

A debugging command was left over by mistake in the code. It has now been removed.

Misc. updates

This release includes minor fix and updates to the pipeline. The Cu-Ar (B3000) reference arc file was replaced with a (much!) more accurate version donated by I. Seitenzahl. mpfit was updated to remove some annoying warnings. Same for "header.update" replaced by "header.set".

The installation of the pipeline is now also easier, as the files auto-detect their location. All is required if to add the pywifes folder to the Python path. No need to define any global variable (pywifes_dir) anymore !