On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM, dimpase <[email protected]> wrote: > Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP > in place of the supplied one. > Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old and (a bit) > broken version of GAP, > (well, I know that I can install a newer version by downloading the > corresponding update) > having two copies of GAP is awkward, just given the fact that a full > installation of GAP with all > the packages and libraries is quite huge. > (well, maybe it is psychological difficulty, as I use (and > occasionally develop small bits of) GAP since > 1994... :)) >
Can you test if this will actually work by modifying the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/gap in your Sage install in the natural way? For quite a while we had to patch GAP so that it would work with the Sage interface. I'm curious -- what in particular is broken about GAP-4.4.10? We tried to ship 4.4.12, but found it to be "more broken"; in particular, it didn't work on Itanium Linux boxes, which is one of our officially supported platforms. -- William -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
