v0.5.2

GAP v0.5.2

Diff since v0.5.1

Summary of changes

From the user's point of view, the main changes in this release are better documentation and better error handling.

Closed issues:

• Document ForeignGAP.MPtr (#471)
• Find a way to merge GapObj / MPtr after all, or at least mitigate the performance penalty introduced by their split (#488)
• Feature request: add more Julia conversion constructors, e.g. for Set (#529)
• problem with handling of GAP errors (#580)
• Avoid .tar.bz2 artifact (#589)
• Add error message for Windows users (#612)
• Make things work if julia-config.jl is missing (#623)

Merged pull requests:

• try to make the Julia help available in a GAP session (#566) (@ThomasBreuer)
• CI: remove version restriction for AbstractAlgebra (#594) (@fingolfin)
• catch GAP errors in GAP.evalstr (#605) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Fix potential crashes in ccall (#606) (@fingolfin)
• added a description how doctestfilters work (#607) (@ThomasBreuer)
• get rid of a RadioMenu warning (#608) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Switch to new GAP_jll and GAP_lib_jll (#610) (@fingolfin)
• Add error message for Windows users (#613) (@ThomasBreuer)
• document the Julia help access from GAP (#615) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fix some tests (#616) (@ThomasBreuer)
• improvements to the JuliaInterface manual (#617) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Remove references to ForeignGAP (#620) (@fingolfin)
• mention that GapObj is printed as GAP_jll.MPtr (#622) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Ship our own copy of julia-config.jl (#625) (@fingolfin)
• Replace .tar.bz2 by .tar.gz archive (#626) (@fingolfin)