OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework — pull request #1060 by Kenneth-T-Moore (2012-07-31 14:34:52+00:00)
Title: Derivatives2.0

Some fixes for the derivatives stuff:

1. Added support for linked parameters to the analytic and chain rule differentiator.

2. Completed the implementation of finite difference blocks to the chain rule differentiator.

3. Fixed a bug in Container's \_\_deepcopy\_\_ that prevented copy of components with instance traits

4. New feature for ExecComps - you can now specify a delay time for the function and derivative evaluation.

5. The number of component executions from the component copies that run finite difference are now correctly migrated over to the original component's execution tally.

6. Fixed a bug that prevented skip_baseline from skipping the baseline in the finite difference distribution generator.