v0.4.0

Several new States, State features, more data recording options, new communications managers, and various fixes.

• State default and default_factory improvements (#82)
  • Only one of the two is allowed
  • The factory is run on each initialization of an Actor
  • No more deepcopy of a default
• State Recording Functions (#85)
  • Custom functions and callable classes add more data when states update
• Dictionary and Dataclass States (#94)
  • DictionaryState and DataclassState added.
  • UPSTAGE will record attribute changes in those data types automatically
  • No more actor.record_state(statename) needed for those data types as states.
• Added MultiStoreState (#96)
  • Similar to DictionaryState. Keys map to Store and Container resources.
  • Help for defaults and other settings for the resources.
  • Data recording manages _quantities
• Communications Improvements
  • Modes for CommunicationStore are not required until instantiation (#97)
  • Added a Communications manager for network message routing (#99)
• Fixed bug in NamedUpstageEntity where multiple inheritance failed to provide all entity_groups (#101)
• Actors can set knowledge on instantiation (#102)
• States can force the default value to be the first value with no_init=True (#102)