It turns out that there are three packages concerned with gap in conda - gap-core : only the gap executable - gap-defaults : a tiny subset of gap packages - gap : all packages (that build)
Installing gap solved my issue! On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 09:31, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dima for the pointers. > > Note that it does not exactly solve the issue in the "dirty short term > way" since images depends on ferret which contains C++ code. > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 16:08, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM Vincent Delecroix > > <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have code relying on the GAP package Images > > > (https://gap-packages.github.io/images/doc/chap0_mj.html). Short > > > version of the question : is there a (dirty short term or clean long > > > term) solution for having a working Images gap package in a conda > > > install of SageMath? > > > > Images is just GAP code, so installing it just needs putting the > > source in an appropriate directory. > > E.g. GAP's PackageManager (which is itself a GAP package) should be > > able to install it for you without > > problems. > > Or you can put it manually in ~/.gap/pkg/ > > - or in <whatever prefix>/pkg/ - where you other GAP packages are. > > > > > > It does work when I use my (arch) system sage after installing > > > gap-packages with pacman and also from source (since the SageMath > > > gap_packages include Images). However > > > > > > - Images is not listed in the documentation > > > https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/gap_packages.html > > > which is confusing. Why don't we have the full list in > > > src/buipkd/gap_packages/SPKG.rst? > > > > probably an oversight - we keep adding packages to gap_packages in an > > ad hoc manner. > > > > > > > > - there does not seem to be a way to install the gap packages in > > > conda, is there? > > > > In principle, you can install (for your user) any GAP package in ~/.gap/pkg/ > > (if it needs building, you'd need to figure out where the appropriate > > GAP configs file (called sysinfo.gap) lives, > > and pass this location to the package's configure) > > > > HTH > > Dima > > > > > > > > Best > > > Vincent > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "sage-devel" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > To view this discussion visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGEwAA%3DH2oEdrhzCiWwtX6H-f1miBApAS191YfespwTqDF7XOQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGEwAAmtPgKeOtsO1eFMyrfV6NpU5_EvPtCDzQPKX4fHv9jYrQ%40mail.gmail.com.
