GAP.jl 0.4.0 released

Today GAP.jl 0.4.0 has been released.

Diff since v0.3.5

Closed issues:

• What are the rules for conversion when calling from GAP to Julia, and vice versa? And why are they this way? (#28)
• Strings which are not stringreps are not handled by show method and probably others (#176)
• Get GAP to use the same GMP as Julia, Nemo, … (#254)
• Add ~/.julia/gap.sh back or revise OSCAR install instructions (#335)
• Installing GAP.jl simultaneously within multiple Julia versions may crash (#377)
• Implement support for passing keyword arguments to Julia from the GAP side (#381)
• JuliaExperimental depends (via zlattice.jl) on LinearAlgebra (#389)
• access to Julia variables from GAP (#390)
• Loading GAP.jl then Singular.jl causes ERROR: InitError: too many gmp (#392)
• Move GAP compilation to a separate GAPBuilder.jl, even if it compiles from source (#394)
• Update build.jl to guard for exceptions (#395)
• Track hash of GAP tarball, avoid extra downloads (#396)
• Acknowledge DFG funding in the package README & manual (#405)
• autom4te: cannot open configure: Permission denied (#406)
• Add constructors for conversion from GAP to Julia (#428)
• Don’t call Pkg.build(“GAP”) (#435)
• Travis: figure out if caching Julia artifacts makes sense (i.e. provides a speedup), and how to do it safely (#437)
• How to get sublists of a GAP list? (#438)
• JuliaToGAP cannot convert Julia ranges to GAP lists (#439)

Merged pull requests:

• Make GAP.jl threadsafe. (#302) (@rbehrends)
• on the GAP side, support Julia’s keyword arguments (#391) (@ThomasBreuer)
• improved JuliaInterface documentation (#393) (@ThomasBreuer)
• ?GAP (#397) (@fieker)
• Use artifacts system to manage GAP download; make things Julia version dependent; more (#400) (@fingolfin)
• Remove special support for using a self-compiled GAP (#402) (@fingolfin)
• JI: use RequireStringRep, some renaming (#403) (@fingolfin)
• Remove unused stuff (#404) (@fingolfin)
• keyword arguments: something that had been missing (#409) (@ThomasBreuer)
• removed the dependency on LinearAlgebra’s diag (#411) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Switch to GAP 4.11.0 tarball with maintainer mode (#412) (@fingolfin)
• Minor code refactoring (#414) (@fingolfin)
• Travis: run test on macOS, too (#417) (@fingolfin)
• Travis: import Julia packages in install step (#418) (@fingolfin)
• Only compile GAP once for each Julia major.minor pair (#422) (@fingolfin)
• access to Julia variables from GAP (#423) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Overload ‘in’ for convenience (#424) (@fingolfin)
• Fix tests with Julia nightly (#425) (@fingolfin)
• Remove JuliaSymbolsInModule (#426) (@fingolfin)
• Start GAP via Julia (#427) (@fingolfin)
• Show banner again by default (#429) (@fingolfin)
• constructors for conversion to Julia, bugfixes (#430) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Some minor cleanup (#431) (@fingolfin)
• JuliaInterface: avoid low-level GAP kernel calls (#436) (@fingolfin)
• Use GAP.Packages.load more (#440) (@fingolfin)
• Work related to BuildPackage.sh (#441) (@fingolfin)
• Instead of running Pkg.build("GAP") tell the user to do so (#442) (@fingolfin)
• two list issues brought up by Mohamed (#444) (@ThomasBreuer)
• updated .gitignore (#445) (@mohamed-barakat)
• Ensure GNU readline resp. ncurses finds terminfo (#448) (@fingolfin)
• Use get! for IdDict (available since Julia 1.1) (#449) (@fingolfin)
• Simplify error setup in initialize() (#451) (@fingolfin)
• Add GAP.prompt() method (#453) (@fingolfin)