Release v0.1.9

some packaging changes for up-to date maintenance and resolving some package vulnerability warnings

Release v0.1.7

This release adds the following changes:

• Adds a script to download the supplementary data from zenodo.
• Adds the requirements.txt file for allowing the installation of exact dependencies for reproducing paper results.
• Updates the README.md with new instructions for using the supplementary data with the scripts
• Minor change to the demo.