On 2 Sep 2014, at 23:40, François Bissey <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's a point were I think I should chip in some info. > > When sage moved to gap 4.5+ I was in pain making a new ebuild for sage-on- > gentoo. Initially I was just installing the full gap instead of a trimmed > version. Installation takes ages. I have now trimmed things a little bit > but it still take ages - but still an improvement. Thanks, François. Would be interested to know what takes particularly long time there. > I had to very quickly blacklist xgap, removing it altogether. In gap 4.5.x > it would automatically load when gap was started in sage and cause sage to > hang. It took us a little while to pinpoint it. > https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/issues/189 > in particular > https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/issues/189#issuecomment-12587392 It makes sense about xgap. There are two gap packages, xgap and pargap, which can not be loaded from GAP with LoadPackage command. Instead, they have own shell scripts to start GAP in a specific way. Best wishes Alexander -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
