#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 jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:3 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.
> }}}
All the above doesn't explain why you use the repackaged version and not
the official GAP 3 release from [http://www.gap-
system.org/Gap3/Download3/download.html]
> 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.
No, the official `gap3r4p4` release also contains chevie.
> 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.
Because the repackaging seems to made in a messy way, see #19164.
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