See CHANGELOG.md for a full list of changes
* Removed nxsim
* Refactored `agents.NetworkAgent` and `agents.BaseAgent`
* Refactored exporters
* Added stats to history
Multithreading needs pickling to work.
Pickling/unpickling didn't work in some situations, like when the
environment_agents parameter was left blank.
This was due to two reasons:
1) agents and history didn't have a setstate method, and some of their
attributes cannot be pickled (generators, sqlite connection)
2) the environment was adding generators (agents) to its state.
This fixes the situation by restricting the keys that the environment exports
when it pickles, and by adding the set/getstate methods in agents.
The resulting pickles should contain enough information to inspect
them (history, state values, etc), but very limited.
Now the environment does not deal with history directly, it delegates it to a
specific class. The analysis also uses history instances instead of either
using the database directly or creating a proxy environment.
This should make it easier to change the implementation in the future.
In fact, the change was motivated by the large size of the csv files in previous
versions. This new implementation only stores results in deltas, and it fills
any necessary values when needed.
* Graphs are not saved by default (not backwards compatible)
* Modified newsspread examples
* More granular options to save results (exporting to CSV and GEXF are now
optional)
* Updated tutorial to include exporting options
* Removed references from environment to simulation
* Added parallelism to simulations (can be turned off with a flag or argument).
