On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:37 AM, mabshoff
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>

....

>>
>> > One way to attack this would be to use something along the lines of
>>
>> > mabsh...@sage:/scratch/mabshoff/sage-3.4.alpha1/spkg/standard$ ./
>> > newest_version gap
>> > gap-4.4.12.p1
>>
>> > and strip the ".pX" off the version number in case it exists. Another
>> > one would be to look into the right directory and find the highest
>> > currently installed GAP version.
>>
...

>
> No, see my comments earlier in this thread, i.e. do *not* hard code
> the GAP release since this will break the spkg on Sage releases
> earlier then 3.3 and also next time GAP is updated.
>

Okay, but won't having a script which earlier than 3.3 versions can't find
also break such an install? I guess I'm not completely understanding your idea
and how I can help gap_packages* by implementing it.



>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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