Over the last year or so this package has gotten a little stale. I've been somewhat hesitant to keep this package up to date because I'm trying to finish up some work and I didn't want to update my environment until that was done (I'm still using Julia v0.4 in places...). Well, it's still not done, but I've spent some of my free time rewriting this package because I've learned a lot more about how to write Julia code and I was somewhat embarrassed by its current state.

So here it is. I've rewritten almost the entire package to create something that doesn't suck.

no longer using Ptr{Void} because this doesn't play nicely with Julia's GC (fixes #24)
a bunch of functions that worked only with Float32 (reading/writing fits files) or Float64 (spherical harmonic transforms) now work with either
HealpixMap has been split into RingHealpixMap and NestHealpixMap. Both of these are subtypes of AbstractVector now, and nside is no longer a type parameter
Alm is now a subtype of AbstractVector and lmax/mmax are no longer type parameters. (this and the previous point fixes #21 and fixes #25)
indexing an Alm object by l and m now requires the @lm macro in order to play nicely with the AbstractVector interface (see https://discourse.julialang.org/t/custom-indexing-for-an-abstractvector-breaks-display-but-not-show/3813?u=michael_eastwood)
Alm and both HealpixMaps implement custom broadcasting
new iterator QuantumNumberIterator that allows for easy iterating over values of l and m
pixel functions that return a unit vector will now return a static 3 element array (thanks to StaticArrays for making this easy)
build system now depends on BinDeps
lots of documentation and examples (hopefully when I merge this to master Travis will automatically deploy the docs..)
good test coverage
this package is now julia v0.6 only

There are still a couple todo items before another release can be tagged:

check to see if I can't get the Mac build working again
make sure the docs are getting deployed properly
expand on the documentation with some more prose and examples
clean up the README
add a NEWS file

Codecov Report

Merging #26 into master will increase coverage by 0.68%. The diff coverage is 96.62%.

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##           master      #26      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   95.73%   96.41%   +0.68%     
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  Files           6        7       +1     
  Lines         164      279     +115     
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+ Hits          157      269     +112     
- Misses          7       10       +3

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
src/pixel.jl	`97.95% <100%> (+6.53%)`	:arrow_up:
src/transforms.jl	`100% <100%> (ø)`	:arrow_up:
src/projections.jl	`100% <100%> (ø)`
src/LibHealpix.jl	`66.66% <66.66%> (-8.34%)`	:arrow_down:
src/alm.jl	`94.18% <94.18%> (-5.82%)`	:arrow_down:
src/map.jl	`96.49% <96.49%> (+0.26%)`	:arrow_up:
src/io.jl	`98.3% <98.3%> (ø)`

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mweastwood / LibHealpix.jl

huge rewrite of the whole package #26

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