#20107: Add again optional GAP3 package
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Reporter: stumpc5 | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-7.1
Component: packages: optional | Resolution:
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Comment (by stumpc5):
Replying to [comment:2 jdemeyer]:
> I think this is the problem: it doesn't seem to be the "official" GAP3
package, just some random repackaging of GAP3.
The development of GAP3 has stopped a long time ago. But there are several
GAP3 packages that have never been ported to GAP4, and which are still
developed.
From that webpage:
{{{
To help people who are just interested in GAP3 because they need a package
which has not been ported to GAP4, I have prepared an easy-to install
minimal GAP3 distribution containing an up-to-date versions of the
packages.
}}}
So this is the only place where we can find up-to-date versions of the
GAP3 package *chevie* to work with unitary reflection groups and their
representation theory.
I fail to see what might be wrong with adding support for those packages
using that "random repackaging" since I and several others need them.
I install the packages myself and then use them from within Sage, but
since several things inside Sage are about to depend on that package - see
#11187, #11010, #10819 - I think it is worth providing the option for
others to automatically install that version of GAP3 with the newest
*chevie* package.
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