Please see ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexander Konovalov <al...@mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: 30 April 2011 08:59 Subject: [Devel] Draft for GAP Forum: Beta release of GAP 4.5 for package authors To: "de...@gap-system.org" <de...@gap-system.org> Dear all, We have to write also a public announcement of the beta release in the GAP Forum. I suggest to do it somewhere next week. Please find a draft version below. It will be useful to reach package authors who are hopefully members of the Forum, because some emails to addresses stated in PackageInfo.g files were bounced; it will be helpful to users who are only developing their first package now; and, finally, it will inform the users community about our progress. Best, Alexander =============== Dear GAP Forum, There have been many changes in the development version of GAP during the more than two years since the release of GAP 4.4.12. Some major developments that were started earlier are now ready for release and it's now high time for the GAP 4.5 release, which we plan to have later in 2011. We have already prepared a first beta version of GAP 4.5, named GAP 4.5.1, which is available in the following directory: ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/ in order to allow authors of GAP 4 packages to test their packages with the new features and prepare them for the first public release of GAP 4.5. We have already tested most of the current versions of GAP packages with the beta-release of GAP 4.5, and did not find any serious problems. Thus, we hope that for most packages the change will go smoothly. While the transition to GAP 4.5 will not break existing GAP code we encouraged package authors to make some adjustments in the setup and the documentation of packages to use some of the new features of the GAP 4.5 package interface. If you are currently working on a new GAP package which you plan to release soon, or if you are simply interested in a preview of a new version of GAP, you are welcome to download, install and test GAP 4.5.1 which has the URL ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/gap4r5p1_2011_04_15-00_10.zip This archive is not quite the same as the GAP 4.4 archives. For the general release of GAP 4.5 (and subsequent updates) we plan the main form of distribution of GAP to be a single dated archive file including current versions of all packages. Some of the packages that are loaded at the beginning of the GAP session currently produce errors; these may be ignored at the moment unless you need those particular packages, and should be eventually eliminated after relevant package updates. This archive does not include binaries so you will need to compile the GAP kernel yourself. There are now additional configure options available to specify the usage of the external GMP and readline libraries and the build mode, which are documented in the Chapter "Installing GAP" of the Reference manual, available also at ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/install.pdf To run GAP under Windows, you may either compile it yourself with Cygwin or download Windows binaries in the archive http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk/gap/gap4r5p1winbin.zip It has two subdirectories, "gap4r5/bin" and "gap4r5/terminfo". You should unpack it from the same place where you've previously unpacked 4.5.1 so the content of 'bin' will go to the existing 'gap4r5/bin' directory and a new subdirectory 'terminfo' will be created in 'gap4r5'. In addition, the file http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk/gap/gap45beta.txt contains further notes for package authors about building GAP 4.5 beta with GMP on Mac OS X and may be extended with other relevant information in the future. The document ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/gap45beta.pdf contains, in addition to the information included in this message, a more detailed announcement of GAP 4.5.1 with a brief overview of main changes in GAP 4.5 from the package author's perspective, descriptions of known problems that we observed while testing current packages with GAP 4.5, and some further guidelines. For your convenience, the text of the announcement is duplicated in the temporary preface of the reference manual for GAP 4.5.1, from where you may follow hyperlinks to appropriate manual sections. We welcome all feedback to supp...@gap-system.org including comments, suggestions, bug reports and manual corrections. Best wishes, the GAP development team _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list de...@gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Dmitrii Pasechnik ----- DISCLAIMER: Any text following this sentence does not constitute a part of this message, and was added automatically during transmission. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
