Turing.jl: Make Turing.jl 0.6 compatible

[xukai92]

Typing system is kind of changed - would need some refactors.

Related issue: https://github.com/yebai/Turing.jl/issues/173

I would suggest that we fix https://github.com/yebai/Turing.jl/issues/177 and also put 0.6 support in our 0.3 release?

[ChrisRackauckas]

When is this planned for?

[yebai]

@ChrisRackauckas This is already planed in 0.3.1, which we plan to fix the adaption issue (#324) and Julia 0.6 compatibility.

[emilemathieu]

Closed the duplicate issue https://github.com/yebai/Turing.jl/issues/330

[yebai]

cc @xukai92 @emilemathieu @ae-foster @ChrisRackauckas

We have fixed all known compatibility issues of Turing with Julia 0.6. The master branch of Turing now supports (requires) Julia 0.6.

[ChrisRackauckas]

Great thanks! When do you plan on tagging?

[yebai]

There are some remaining issues with the NUTS sampler, mostly related to robust adaption (see https://github.com/yebai/Turing.jl/milestone/5). I planned to fix those issues altogether in 0.3.1. But perhaps we can move these issues to 0.3.2 and make a new tagging now. What do you think?

cc @xukai92

[ChrisRackauckas]

I would prefer a quicker tag, and more can always be added later of course. Reviewing tags in METADATA is easier when you have less per tag.

[yebai]

I see - will do.

[mkborregaard]

Would it maybe be an idea to add 0.6 to the travis tracker on the readme.md now this works?

[xukai92]

I've added the badge of 0.6 though I think the compilation doesn't pass because of the Stan dependency. For this reason I added a News sections explicitly saying that Turing.jl is 0.6 compatible.