FYI: Major refactoring ahead

[tferr]

@carshadi, just to let you know that there have been some major refactoring of SNT's Path class:
Basically in SNT 5.0 all of the archaic arrays holding every single feature of path nodes have been replaced with a single list of PathNode objects. Quick tests on the demo datasets show faster A* searches under less memory (~20-30% for both).

I am convinced that things work smoother now with pyimagej because the architecture is streamlined significantly.

The old startJoins, startJoinsPoint fields, etc. are deprecated. They should still work, but if you run into issues the new equivalent methods/fields are hopefully more intuitive:

Path.getStartJoins -> Path.getParentPath()
Path.getStartJoinsPoint() -> Path.getBranchPoint()
Path.setStartJoin(parentPath, branchPoint) -> Path.setBranchFrom(parentPath, branchPoint)
Path.disconnectFromAll() -> Path.detachFromParent() 

Also, Path.createCircles() and a bunch of other methods related to radii are no longer needed and do nothing now.

[carshadi]

Thanks for the heads up @tferr , let me know when things are ready to test and I will give it a whirl 👍

[tferr]

You should be able to test things now with local bundles. They are not yet available in maven