On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:50 AM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > One of the complains i have heard from my colleagues that use sage > (and i have noticed myself) is the lack of certain gap packages in the > sage distribution. There is an spkg with some of them, but most are > missing. Also, it is not easy to find documentation on how to install > gap packages in the sage installation. I propose some possible > solutions for that (not necesarily exclusive): > > 1) increase the amount of gap packages in the gap_packages spkg
The GAP packages have various distribution licenses. Just because they are distributed on gap-system.org doesn't mean anyone can distribute them. It depends on the license. You could either check that the redistribution is allowed (eg, if the package is GPL'd) or, if needed, contact the package authors directly. Alternatively, you might be able to write a script (using wget?) which downloads the packages from the GAP website then installs them automatically. > 2) Do some extra spkg's, maybe one for each gap package? > 3) Related with the previous one: write some quick guide on how to > make those extra spkg's, and add it to the documetation (maybe tthe > wiki would be a good place for that). I know there is a chapter on the > developement guide about spkg's, but in this case i mean something > like an easy step-by-step guide. This could be useful for people that > want to add a certain gap package, and also their effort can be reused > if those packages are collected somewhere. > 4) Just write some documentation on how to install gap packages by > hand. > > I can volunteer for both options 2 or 3 (and maybe 4, although i am > sure there are some people that would do much better than me), but i > would like to know what people think first. > > -- > 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 -- 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
