GAP.jl 0.5.0 released

11 Dec 2020

Today GAP.jl 0.5.0 has been released.

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)