2014-07-24
- version 2.0.7
- fixed some methods to work with instances of subclasses
- fixed a bug in the SVG export (rgb), thanks to Diederik van Lierop
- fixed a bug with exceptions in the initialisation, thanks to Diederik van Lierop
- fixed a bug in gpc: replace on DBL_EPSILON with variable GPC_EPSILON, thanks to Peter Vavaroutsos
- code changes to work with future versions of numpy (#define NPY_NO_DEPRECATED_API NPY_1_8_API_VERSION)

2013-01-29
- version 2.0.6
- moved development from GitHub to bitbucket
- renamed package from Polygon to Polygon2 to avoid conflicts with Polygon3
- getting numpy include path automatically in setup.py
- fixed https://github.com/jraedler/Polygon2/issues/2

2012-07-03
- version 2.0.5
- changed some data types to prevent warnings
- fixed numpy interface
- numpy support is switched on by default now
- close file correctly in gpfInfo()

2011-03-20
- version 2.0.4
- fixed a bug in writeSVG()
- added optional hole-flag for gpf files to the documentation
- added Utils.gpfInfo()

2010-09-29
- fixed centerAroundOrigin()
- updated documentation, merged with the 3.0.x branch
- included PDF documentation in the dist packages

2010-09-20
- version 2.0.3

17.09.10
- added the tileBSP() function and an example

2010-05-07
- version 2.0.2
- changed calculation of orientation to another (better) algorithm
  (thanks to Jan Nabbefeld)
- added a patch to get sample points from the polygon
  (thanks to Thouis (Ray) Jones)
- several changes to fix potential memory leaks
  (thanks to Daniel Derrien and others)

2009-09-14
- version 2.0.1
- bugfix for calculation of orientation and center

2009-06-02
- fork of the 3.0 branch to work with python-3.x

2009-06-02
- version 2.0 final
- added SierpinskiCarpet to Shapes
- deleted an old print statement in pdf export

2009-03-09
- version 2.0b2
- updated documentation
- works now with latest numpy
- some bugfixes

2009-02-15
- version 2.0b1
- lots of changes, most important are:
    * Polygons can now be subclassed
    * added a cloneContour method 
    * moved modules to a package
    * moved i/o and shapes to separate modules
    * moved from numeric to numpy
    * dropped some old stuff, requires a recent python interpreter now (>=2.5)
- open bugs:
    * numpy-test doesn't work yet

2007-04-19
- version 1.17
- bugfix for Python 2.5 / PyMalloc (mixed PyMem_* and PyObject_*)

2006-04-19
- version 1.16
- small change to work with Python 2.2 again (thanks to Tim Wegener),
  unittest will not work with 2.2

2005-08-12
- version 1.15
- fixed one bug introduced in 1.14

2005-08-11
- version 1.14
- fixed a memory leak when not using Numeric (hopefully)

2005-01-25
- version 1.13
- added dump/loadXML()
- added dump/loadBinary()

2004-12-21
- version 1.12
- switched to gpc 2.32

2004-10-26
- catched errors while opening files for reading or writing

2004-10-18
- added some tests

2004-10-12
- version 1.10
- started the HISTORY file
- improved SVG export a lot
- added support for unittest
- moved some tests from examples to PolygonTest.py
- collected and improved other examples -> PolygonExamples.py
- all examples now produce SVG instead of gnuplot files
