Giovanni Di Siena authored Mar 31, 2020 and Gigg, Martyn Anthony committed Apr 07, 2020

In places other substitutions have been made, e.g
Clang does not yet specialize std::shared_ptr for T[]. Vector
has been used instead. The operator[] methods were incorrectly
marked const but returning a non-const reference - this has been fixed.
Refs #25842

Signed-off-by: Steven Hahn <hahnse@ornl.gov>

Add feature where an externally generated attenuation profile can be loaded into
the material definition from a .DAT text file. This will override the normal
exp(-alpha*thickness) calculation of the attenuation. The new feature was requested
as part of the absorption calculation for the Pearl instrument where some parts
of the environment are crystalline

Found the lookup\interpolation on the loaded profile was slowing down the absorption
Monte Carlo calculation.
So improved performance of Kernel::Interpolation. Changed it to use vector of pairs
instead of two separate vectors to reduce amount of navigation around vectors

Considered adding feature into AttenuationProfile where I add any interpolated points
into the override attenuation profile to prevent interpolation next iteration of
Monte Carlo simulation. However wasn't convinced this was going to be thread-safe
during the parallel part of the absorption calculation - may revisit this. While doing
this investigation I fixed the following issues with the function Interpolation::AddPoint:

a) it doesn't add the same point twice
b) it reuses the lower_bound function rather than stepping through the vector sequentially

I removed the exception from findIndexOfNextLargerValue because the end()
iterator is a valid result if the x value supplied equals the last x value
already in the vector. Could have left check in for begin() but didn't seem
much point

Finally - the interpolation outside the range is not v good. The data at the extremes
is noisy so we end up extrapolating based on random gradient in extreme 2 points. Need
to either fit or use more points to determine gradient

Bumps span to the latest version and move the clone to configure time
rather than build time

Dependencies now go into Frameworks as seems to be done for
other application bundles. This should bring us close to
be able to sign the app bundle

Use macOS over OSX to refer to system.
Remove old OSX version workarounds
Refs #26261

The server has handled https for some time now.

It is unused as users how gone in a different direction
with the project.
Refs #26223

Co-Authored-By: alicerussell1 <46603316+alicerussell1@users.noreply.github.com>

If included then clang on Linux reports "incompatible ASan runtimes"
on running the executables. This lets the -fsanitize flag handle
everything, which seems to do the correct thing for gcc and clang.

Converts a property object into a Json representation for serialization
Refs #23988

It is able to decode a known set of types from JSON
to the appropriate C++ type.

Refs #23988

This is more standard and removes the possibililty
of users to accidentally overriding the set of python
paths required by many interfaces to start.
The pythonscripts.directories config key is now empty by
default and only adds directories on starting the framework.

re #23102

re #22553

re #22553

Add a MD workspace validator for checking that a MDWorkspace conforms to
a particular frame (e.g. HKL, QLab, QSample...)

Add a MD workspace validator for checking that a MDWorkspace conforms to
a particular frame (e.g. HKL, QLab, QSample...)

This includes dragging the libcxx implementation of normal_distribution
and uniform_int_distribution into our source. MSVC, clang and gcc don't
agree on how this should be implemented leading to problems with
comparing test results across platforms. Using a single implementation
gives the same results on each platform.

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Merge done to enable documentation be be fixed, because of removal of
alias directive and addition of related algorithms directive.

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@stfc.ac.uk>