[Debian-science-sagemath] Fwd: [GAP Forum] GAP 4.8.7 release announcement: fix compressed file reading

Fri Mar 31 13:10:08 UTC 2017

Hi Jerome,

maybe. I'm ok with ignoring these two failing doctests for now until
Bill updates the gap package. Then we'll see if it's fixed.

Best,
Tobias

On 03/31/2017 10:58 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Forum,
> 
> will it solved the last sagemath issue involving GAP ?
> 
> FYI, Jerome
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [GAP Forum] GAP 4.8.7 release announcement
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 06:38:25 +0000
> From: Alexander Konovalov <alexander.konovalov at st-andrews.ac.uk>
> To: GAP Forum <forum at gap-system.org>
> 
> Dear GAP Forum,
> 
> This is to announce the release of GAP 4.8.7, which could be downloaded from
> 
> 	http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/
> 
> The only two changes in the core GAP system made in this release are:
> 
> * Fixed regression from GAP 4.7.6 when reading compressed files after a
> workspace is loaded. Before the fix, if GAP is started with the -L option
> (load workspace), using ReadLine on the input stream for a compressed file
> returned by InputTextFile only returned the first character. [Reported by
> Bill Allombert]
> 
> * Fixed compiler warning occurring when GAP is compiled with gcc 6.2.0.
> [Reported by Bill Allombert]
> 
> For the corresponding changes in the source code, see the GAP 4.8.7 milestone
> on GitHub:
> 
> 	https://github.com/gap-system/gap/milestone/13?closed=1
> 
> Furthermore, GAP 4.8.7 distribution includes updates for 21 GAP package:
> 
> AutoDoc                    | 2016.12.04 | 04/12/2016
> AutPGrp                    | 1.8        | 25/11/2016
> Digraphs                   | 0.7.1      | 22/03/2017
> Example                    | 3.5.1      | 04/02/2017
> FactInt                    | 1.5.4      | 13/02/2017
> float                      | 0.7.5      | 18/02/2017
> FR                         | 2.4.1      | 09/02/2017
> gpd                        | 1.46       | 21/02/2017
> HAP                        | 1.11.15    | 21/02/2017
> HeLP                       | 3.1        | 12/01/2017
> kbmag                      | 1.5.4      | 01/02/2017
> OpenMath                   | 11.4.2     | 28/02/2017
> profiling                  | 1.3.0      | 23/02/2017
> qaos                       | 1.4        | 15/11/2016
> RCWA                       | 4.5.1      | 13/03/2017
> ResClasses                 | 4.6.0      | 12/02/2017
> SCSCP                      | 2.2.2      | 28/02/2017
> Toric                      | 1.9.4      | 07/03/2017
> Utils                      | 0.46       | 08/02/2017
> XMod                       | 2.59       | 21/03/2017
> 
> and a new package 'lpres' (author: René Hartung, maintainer: Laurent Bartholdi)
> to work with L-presented groups, namely groups given by a finite generating set
> and a possibly infinite set of relations given as iterates of finitely many seed
> relations by a finite set of endomorphisms. The package implements nilpotent
> quotient, Todd-Coxeter and Reidemeister-Schreier algorithms for such groups.
> 
> We encourage all users to upgrade to GAP 4.8.7.
> 
> Just in case, a common pitfall during GAP installation on Linux and macOS is to
> compile only the GAP kernel, but not the packages. This procedure had changed
> less than a year ago (in GAP 4.8.4), so let me remind you that after running
> 
> ./configure
> make
> 
> in the GAP root directory you need to change to the
> 'pkg' subdirectory and call
> 
> ../bin/BuildPackages.sh
> 
> to run the script which will build most of the packages that require
> compilation (provided sufficiently many libraries, headers and tools
> are available).
> 
> If you need any help or would like to report any problems, please do
> not hesitate to contact us at support at gap-system.org, or submit new
> issues on GitHub:
> 
> 	https://github.com/gap-system/gap/issues
> 
> There is also a 'gap' tag for questions about GAP at the
> Mathematics Q&A site:
> 
>    http://math.stackexchange.com/tags/gap/info
> 
> In addition, you may find some GAP related news on Twitter:
> 
>    http://twitter.com/gap_system
> 
> (you may also read the GAP Twitter feed at http://www.gap-system.org).
> 
> 
> Wishing you fun and success using GAP,
> 
> Alexander Konovalov
> on behalf of the GAP Group
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