NEWS

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RcppCGAL 6.0.1

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• Fixing a bug where some builds of Fedora Linux wouldn't untar header files
• Moving rmarkdown to imports so package won't fail building if vignettes are built without suggests

RcppCGAL 6.0 (2024-12-11)

• Updating header files to CGAL header files to 6.0.1.
• Note that CGAL 6.0 requires C++17 standard.
• Note that the compiler flag to disable GMP has changed in the 6.0 version of CGAL. As a work around, users can use both flags in their 'Makevars' file: "-DCGAL_NO_GMP=1 -DCGAL_DISABLE_GMP=1". CGAL_NO_GMP was the old flag and CGAL_DISABLE_GMP is the new one.

RcppCGAL 5.6.4 (2024-07-04)

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• Fixing error caused by RcppCGAL via my own attempt to patch a UBSAN issue. Rolling back to basic 5.6.1 release from CGAL web.

RcppCGAL 5.6.3 (2024-04-30)

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• Updating to CGAL headers version 5.6.1.

RcppCGAL 5.6.2 (2024-01-29)

Bug Fix

• Caught bug that was causing Windows binaries not to have the header files bundled with them. Should be squashed with a test to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.

RcppCGAL 5.6.1 (2024-01-17)

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• Adding Tyler Morgan-Wall to contributors to appropriately reflect patch in last version
• Windows Server 2022 was hanging on the untar stage. Using native R tar on Windows machines seems to fix
• Still using 5.6 version CGAL header files.

RcppCGAL 5.6.0 (2023-12-08)

Major updates

• Snafu due to me being busy and not responding to requests for update from CRAN. Package was archived.
• Update to fix an issue in a dependent package caused my simple checking function replacing a non-standard library exit function in the CGAL header files (Issue #11). User tylermorganwall found bug and fixed. Thank you!
• Package now is bundled with a fixed version (5.6.0) of CGAL header files
• Will download from CGAL release 5.6.0 if those files are somehow missing
• User can supply own head files via CGAL_DIR as before
• Whether a user supplies their own header files is now no longer recorded due to CRAN objection and them not reading response emails.
• Deprecating the cgal_install() function. Had planned to give an error via lifecycle package; however, CRAN maintainers are not reading their emails and assume the function is still working. Previously, planned to soft deprecate but CRAN objected.
• Removed dependency on gh package

New features

• added a set_cgal function (and unset_cgal()) to help users who may have trouble setting the environmental variables on their own.

RcppCGAL 5.5.3 (2023-06-17)

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• The new CGAL 5.6-beta causing issues for the package. This should now be fixed to favor stable releases over beta releases
• Also tried to make some package messages and errors more informative

RcppCGAL 5.5.2 (2023-05-29)

New features

• Added a new feature to automatically find the latest GitHub release (currently 5.5.2). Unfortunately, this requires an additional import: the gh package.
• Users will also have to use the new cgal_install() function to download the header files AFTER installation. This can be circumvented via some environmental options as listed in the installation vignette
• There's now an installation vignette!
• Made the cleaning up of the calls to std::cerr optional with default to clean them up. See documentation for cgal_install().

Minor improvements and Bug Fixes

• CRAN was throwing warnings in Windows versions. New update might fix.
• Additionally, the automatic download on install threw some problems on cluster computing. Should be fixed now (#)
• cgal_version() will now display the guessed version from GitHub OR the file/url path used to download/install the headerfiles.
• version number, as always, aligns with latest CGAL version.

RcppCGAL 5.4.1 (2022-03-21)

Clang-14 throws a warning for some bitwise logical operators in "Uncertain.h". I updated the downloader function to change these instances.

RcppCGAL 5.4 (2022-03-17)

Updated the package to CGAL v5.4. Caught a bug when replacing CGAL error outputs where it didn't properly include Rcpp. Moved all Rcpp includes to the tops of files to prevent this in the future.

RcppCGAL 5.3.1.1 (2022-01-08)

Updated the package to edit out references to std::cerr and std::cout when copying header files. Should prevent error for CRAN checks when attempting to use this package for other R packages on CRAN (#issue-1092895079).

RcppCGAL 5.3.1 (2021-12-17)

First release! Header files for CGAL for use in R. Supports CGAL v5.3.1.