Fixup package version comparisons (#353)

* Fixup python version comparisons

* bump the version

* address some warnings

Version 0.3.1 bump

Version 0.3.0 bump

bump version number

Create python-publish.yml

CI and dev env tweaks (#336)

* add some scripts to aid in local testing of different environments

* tweaks to scripts

* expand test matrix

* enable a nightly run

* only test oldest and newest by default

* use latest ubuntu image by default

* TODO comments

* only 3.11

* comments about cache

* run a more comprehensive test suite on scheduled and manual runs

* enable manual CI runs

* run tests in parallel

* use updated syntax:

* temporarily run all combos

* enable testing within vscode

* allow us to jump into other code

* Revert "temporarily run all combos"

This reverts commit 2d6b130f1653119100e5a15f25fbfea21c44dbef.

* make it match current by default

* exclude some older combos

* add a status badge to the readme landing page

try to make doc build work (#328)

* actually don't bump yikes

* merge bla

* fixes

bump versions again

0.2.3 release

prep for dabl 0.2.2 release