Packaging GAP

[chris]

Hello,

I am considering trying to package "GAP", a famous group manipulation 
package
( http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/  ). It is very large (full 
install is almost 300MB!), but does compile out of the box on cygwin 
with one tiny exception.

I haven't tried to package anything before, so am currently reading the 
various guidelines. But I thought I would ask early if such a large 
package would be accepted?

Also, the tiny exception
Part of the makefile does "strip gap", which fails due to the fact the 
executable is of course called "gap.exe". Many things in cygwin seem to 
work with or without the ".exe", so is this something that should be 
fixed at the "strip" end, or by fiddling with the configure script?

Thank you,

Chris