Merge pull request #1146 in CASA/casa from CAS-12728 to master* commit '667963e9f926596f221401e4cc0643ed11509a1d':
fix comments, CAS-12728
bring updates to _async tests from CASA 6, CAS-12728
Merge pull request #1143 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12517 to master* commit '0694017cffa9d8548d11d45f625b82fc28ac8e8e':
CAS-12517 : simobserve and accompanying test now work in CASA 5 and 6 as far as possible.
Merge pull request #1141 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12627 to master* commit '221c6b56956b6bfb501d93fba590a4e2062f76e0':
bug fixes in ImageBeamSet
casacore ImageBeamSet::setBeam() fix
add test to verify CAS-12627 fix
Merge pull request #1140 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12725 to master* commit 'caa995adc1becf87d30a5268baec53755c838b30':
Fixed data discovery issues that were causing failures
Merge pull request #1139 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12724 to master* commit '1a54415e9997ce9912f129f5ae9e547401b6d3b7':
Failures were caused by floating pprecion differences between operation systems. Replaced Exact comparisons with numpy.isclose
Merge pull request #1142 in CASA/casa from CAS-12597 to master* commit '4f49653ec2fd56a41f439e4dc3830e5eb2ce27c4':
CAS-12597 : Reduce compute of one step in the MTMFS minor cycle.
Merge pull request #1137 in CASA/casa from hf-drs38 to master* commit '7da90010b0789529974557471d891b51d7cd0531':
etc.
fix CASA 5 initialize + make asdmstman initialization consistent with other apps
add python path for access from c++/python
Merge pull request #1138 in CASA/casa from CAS-12684 to master* commit 'cf4b3b0599acc80918a02b5ee6db0de208581019':
CAS-12684: remove async parameters, including documentation and example scripts
Merge pull request #1132 in CASA/casa from hf-drs37 to master* commit '1e114eed23162d737b58306504e566b7c5cb28bf':
add registration of ping service
add ping service to casaviewer
Merge pull request #1131 in CASA/casa from CAS-12719 to master* commit '85190859d537e5a993162dc5cdfba70442674314':
changed one use of test_refimager in comments to test_tclean to match use in casatasks
adjusted CASA 6 expected line counts, does not affect CASA 5 use
added a CASA 6 block for partition defaults in createmms case, does not affect casa 5 use
added import os need in casatasks use
moved import of casac to casa (5) block, matches use i...
Merge pull request #1130 in CASA/casa from CAS-12660 to master* commit 'c9387f81b90041295e4b7c27417f7b695824f0af':
Make plotms RA x-axis descending in all cases
Set axis sort direction after range
Restore axis scale base for RA/Dec plotms plots
Set axis label format for angle (ra/dec)
Merge pull request #1129 in CASA/casa from CAS-12688 to master* commit '0a63dfe336bdd168b1094926af4d969d4917fbd1':
Changed the checks and removed the function I was using to return the truth values
Merge pull request #1128 in CASA/casa from CAS-12689 to master* commit '76dd2fe072b06bba899f338aef86ef1c38172ef8':
CAS-12689 ensure number of OpenMP threads > 0, PtrHolder -> unique_ptr
Merge pull request #1127 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12710 to master* commit 'fafc3e8ccecda01302627e9f312bbec16fafe2e5':
Changed a small error when declaring the cbtool
Merge pull request #1126 in CASA/casa from CAS-12708 to master* commit '2d628f8909a2e52f9f25e1ed14cea45f706ce93c':
CAS-12708 added test for default param values msmd.antennanames()
Merge pull request #1125 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12705 to master* commit 'c62bb3b49d8ad119989453e07378a67800dfe187':
CAS-12705 : fixed msmetadata for differencs in how CASA6 passes intentionally unset arguments
CAS-12705 tabs -> spaces to fix ugly formatting
Merge pull request #1123 in CASA/casa from hf-drs34 to master* commit '18e0835e1476601a918ff9e1d4094ce34d7afc44':
register asdm storage manager (which is compiled into the casaplotms binary w/ CASA 6)