updated spacing_component to avoid having to use openmdao compliant call to calculate distances and gradients.

new random initial positions feature that respects the boundaries and tries to respect the min spacing

record optimization by setting: record = True
chose directory of recording by setting: case_recorder_dir = [your dir]
resume optimization by setting: rerun_case_id = [your case_id] or 'latest' for resuming most recent run

updated a few more test references

Update .gitlab-ci.yml

Updated readme

small fix to yml and readme

Specify the test machine to ignore Colonel dir

correcting ignore statement

Closes #17

removed tests/__init__.py

adapt test to new structure

set to correct colonel commit

set colonel to master

switched back to cmdinterpreter

This reverts commit 089b9a02.