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-Binary population synthesis code that interfaces with binary_c. Based on a original work by Jeff Andrews (can be found in old_solution/ directory). Updated and extended for Python3 by David Hendriks, Robert Izzard
+Binary population synthesis code that interfaces with binary_c. Based on a original work by Jeff Andrews (can be found in old_solution/ directory). Updated and extended for Python3 by David Hendriks, Robert Izzard.
+
+The current release is version 0.4, make sure to use that version number when installing!
 
 ## Requirements
 To run this code you need to at least have installations of:
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 python setup.py clean && python setup.py build --force && python setup.py sdist && pip install --ignore-installed --no-dependencies -v dist/binarycpython-<version of this package>.tar.gz
 ```
 
+#### After installation
+After installing the code via source it is useful to run the test suite before doing any programming with it. The test suite is stored in `binarycpython/tests` and running `python main.py` in there will run all the tests. 
+
 ## Examples
 See the examples/ directory for example scripts and notebooks. The documentation contains example pages as well.