This file describes changes in the PackageManager package.

1.4.3 (2024-01-12)
  - Janitorial changes (adjust tests to pass with package validation
    in GAP 4.13 making the `License` field mandatory)

1.4.2 (2023-12-20)
  - Add 'debug' option which preserves directories resulting from
    failed package installations
  - Simplify bundled `BuildPackages.sh` script (should not affect users)

1.4.1 (2023-03-20)
  - Switch to new GAP package distribution
  - Add custom download code for when PackageManager is used within Julia

1.4.0 (2023-02-04)
  - Revise how packages needing compilation are built, by using a bundled
    script instead of relying on GAP's BuildPackages.sh

1.3.2 (2022-10-06)
  - More informative error output

1.3.1 (2022-10-02)
  - Handle different versions of tar
  - Make info warnings less verbose at level 3
  - Remove dummy variable for DownloadURL

1.3 (2022-08-18)
  - Require GAP >= 4.10
  - Install packages in GAPInfo.UserGapRoot, rather than hard-wire .gap
  - Improve the package documentation
  - Improve internal error handling

1.2 (2021-10-02)
  - InstallPackage now supports a required minimum version argument
  - Compatibility changes to re-enable support for GAP 4.9

1.1 (2020-10-14)
  - Introduce CompilePackage for forcing a recompile
  - Fixes to support newer BuildPackages.sh scripts
  - Fix to work around double-compression issue (see GAP issue #4110)

1.0 (2020-02-04)
  - Interactive demo notebook
  - Adjust test suite for use with Docker
  - Major version number indicating a mature project

0.5.1 (2019-07-18)
  - Fix a broken test and an outdated error message

0.5 (2019-07-12)
  - Build package documentation on install, if not already present
  - Check and fix existing package if Install or Update is called on it
  - Run prerequisites.sh on install if it exists (mainly for Semigroups)
  - Install dependencies in leaf-to-root order, rather than root-to-leaf
  - Handle circular dependencies correctly
  - Change this package's doc to use backticks instead of XML-style tags

0.4 (2019-05-10)
  - Introduce UpdatePackage
  - Change behaviour of InstallPackage to allow interactive updates
  - Check availability and recompile if needed after an attempted install/update

0.3 (2019-03-26)
  - Introduce InstallRequiredPackages to install the packages required by GAP
  - Allow a branch name to be declared in InstallPackageFromGit/Hg
  - Support .tar.bz2 archives
  - Add an abstract

0.2.3 (2019-02-22)
  - Adjust tests to allow for more loaded packages

0.2.2 (2019-02-15)
  - Minor fixes

0.2.1 (2018-10-04)
  - Update documentation
  - Handle dependencies better for cloned repositories
  - Remove packages after failed installation

0.2.0 (2018-10-03)
  - Automatically install required dependencies when installing a package
  - Check whether a newer version of a given package is already installed
  - Refuse to overwrite an existing package
  - Log output of failed shell commands such as tar or compilation script
  - Print more info to the screen (InfoPackageManager is now 3 by default)
  - Various bug fixes and minor improvements

0.1.0 (2018-09-21)
  - Initial release with InstallPackage, InstallPackageFrom*, and RemovePackage
