small edits to pid document

add planning documents

Fixes handling of empty ranges and ranges with l>r

merge master into my fork

Adds support to call `std:distance()` in cases where a valid conversion
between iterator and sentinel exists.

Compatibiliy fixes for gcc 4.9.2, clang 3.5

Bugfix: partition in serial gathered vector

See defect report:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#1467

This new `util:distance()` operating on an iterator `I` and a sentinel
`S`. It reverts to `std::distance()` if `I==S`, otherwise it increments
iterator sequentially until it reaches the sentinel and returns the number of
total increments.

Also removed tests for ranges with `l>r`.

Also added more unit tests for testing ranges of counters.

Still open: handling of l>r cases.

Also adresses the problem of using `std::distance()` with different
iterator and sentinel types.

Bugfix/gcc4.9.3 compatibility

Latest Multicore Optimizations

Minor fixes for PR#86 branch.

* Count tests with int not bool in `mpi_listener.hpp`
* Ytpo fix in `gathered_vector.hpp`
* Add missing include in `test_algorithms.cpp`

* fix compile time error in src/model.hpp
* add mpi_listener type for sensible output and error reporting
  when using MPI with Google Test.
* add stub for communicator unit testing

Migrate cell_group and fvm_cell to internal API.

* Initialize voltage in `fvm_cell::initialize` to `resting_potential_`.
* Remove errant end-of-line whitespace.
* Fix merge conflict (merged master).

* fix build errors in tests with TBB
* set default probe output to none in miniapp

* the user can specify one of {none,AVX,AVX2,KNL} as
  targets for vectorization
* if modcc is available in PATH it will be used, which
  makes cross compilation easier
* a new flag USE_OPTIMIZED_KERNELS can be set to
  generate optimized kernels from the modcc compiler
  (equivalent to adding -O flag to modcc)

* `nest::mc::threading::sort` is analogous to `std::sort`
    * when using TBB the `tbb::parallel_sort` is used
    * otherwise `std::sort` is used
* used to parallelise connection construction during setup
    * now all initialization and simulation is multi-threaded
* added a unit test

* replace a call to `std::iota` with a for loop because the Intel
compiler was optimizing out the `std::iota` call in a unit test.
* add uniform syntax for converting pointer+size and ArrayView+size
into an ArrayView to provide uniform method for accessing ranges
inside mechanisms with/without optimizations.

Ranges and views implementations.

* Makes EXPECTS() fail handler a global, settable function pointer.
* Fix `util::upto` for bidirectional iterators with begin==end.
* Use `std::string` in error reporting with `either` in `partition_view`
  to correct incorrect default conversion in return value.
* Correct return types for `util::range::operator[]` and `util::range::at()`
* `transform_iterator` requires only iterator==sentinel test for correct sentinel
  behaviour.
* Extend partition tests to cover:
  * partition views over short (length) sequences,
  * non-numeric partitions,
  * throw on validation check of non-monotonic sequence,
  * make_partition with short and long size sequences, short division containers.
* Extend range tests to cover:
  * compatibility with `std::accumulate`,
  * correct constness of dereferences with respect to wrapped iterators,
  * proper type deduction for `make_range` over pointers.
* Extend span tests to cover:
  * span creation from `std::pair`,
  * proper type promotion with heterogeneous bounds.