v0.5.0

GAP v0.5.0

Diff since v0.4.4

Summary of changes

From the user's viewpoint, this release mainly provides better support for Julia's constructors (compared to the function gap_to_julia),
and iteration for GP lists.
From a technical viewpoint, the most important changes are that now GAP_jll is used, and that GitHub Actions are used instead of Travis.

Closed issues:

• Naming conventions: JuliaGetGlobalVariable vs. JuliaFunction (#175)
• Add support for converting Julia Byte Array Literals / Base.CodeUnits to/from GAP strings (#177)
• Add possibility to add custom GAP packages (#246)
• GAP crash when loading JuliaInterface in a Jupyter notebook with GAP 4 kernel (#282)
• GAP's -r option and Julia's .julia/config/startup.jl (#284)
• Feature request: Use BinaryBuilder for GAP.jl (#285)
• Iteration protocol for GAP lists? (#345)
• problem with JuliaBindCFunction in JuliaInterface (#349)
• Optimization: reimplement C function call_gap_func in pure Julia (#360)
• Idea: better handling of compiled packages (#407)
• GAP.Packages.install now broken because of different build directory (#408)
• problem with import statements in files loaded via JuliaIncludeFile (#419)
• detect whether JuliaInterface (and GAP.jl) fit to a running GAP (#433)
• installation problem for version 0.3.5 (#447)
• a change due to GAP.prompt() (#461)
• GAP.prompt() broken in ubuntu docker container (#465)
• Better EvalString error (#474)
• macros: bug or feature? (#517)
• ordering of initialization steps (#518)
• Error thrown by GAP: Error, DivideError: integer division error (#519)
• Fix convert(GapObj, big(2)^100) (#531)
• during build: LoadError: could not load library "libjulia" (#533)
• Regression through commit fix conversion of strings containing null characters (#545)
• Migrate from Travis to GitHub Actions (#552)
• Assertion on upcoming 1.6 when running tests (#560)
• Restore coverage reporting for GAP code (#571)

Merged pull requests:

• two-step help request via a menu (#510) (@ThomasBreuer)
• show GAP traceback on errors thrown by GAP (#520) (@ThomasBreuer)
• changed JuliaIncludeFile (#522) (@ThomasBreuer)
• removed the loewy files from JuliaExperimental (#524) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fixed the @g_str macro (#525) (@ThomasBreuer)
• moved two comment lines (#526) (@ThomasBreuer)
• added a missing julia_to_gap method (#532) (@ThomasBreuer)
• make calling GapObj function objects faster when no keyword arguments are involved (#534) (@rfourquet)
• allow seeding GAP's global RNG (#535) (@rfourquet)
• added hash methods for GapObj and FFE (#536) (@ThomasBreuer)
• added Set for GapObj (#537) (@ThomasBreuer)
• add iteration for GAP objects (#538) (@rfourquet)
• optimize Vector{T} constructor for isbitstype (#539) (@rfourquet)
• optimize Vector{T} constuctor by avoiding elmlist variable (#540) (@rfourquet)
• added literal_pow method for inverting (#541) (@ThomasBreuer)
• removed the GAP variable JuliaKnownFiles (#542) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fix conversion of strings containing null characters (#543) (@ThomasBreuer)
• set GAP's AlwaysPrintTracebackOnError in tests (#546) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fix string conversion (#547) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Move some code from GAP.jl to separate files (#549) (@fingolfin)
• Switch to using GAP_jll (#550) (@fingolfin)
• update TagBot.yml (#551) (@rfourquet)
• Migrate CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (#554) (@fingolfin)
• fix GAP.Packages.load (#555) (@ThomasBreuer)
• JuliaInterface: remove include(Base.find_package("GAP")) (#557) (@fingolfin)
• Remove JuliaBindCFunction (#562) (@fingolfin)
• Remove JuliaGetGlobalVariable (#563) (@fingolfin)
• Provide Oscar CI workflows for GitHub actions. (#565) (@rbehrends)
• CI: fix continue-on-error (#568) (@fingolfin)
• README.md: clarify that GAP.jl is low-level (#569) (@fingolfin)
• Tweak README.md (#570) (@fingolfin)
• do not read startup.jl twice (#572) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Add back code coverage for GAP files (#573) (@fingolfin)
• test/runtests.jl: include adapter.jl (#575) (@fingolfin)
• CI: add Coveralls integration (#576) (@fingolfin)
• Prefer constructors over gap_to_julia (#577) (@fingolfin)