#8520: Optional package gap_packages-4.4.12_2 fails to install on Solaris 10
SPARC
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.4
Component: optional packages | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by dimpase):
Replying to [comment:9 drkirkby]:
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> I think it would be worth adding SPKG.txt and a repository now.
done (as of 17.03.2010) 12:30 UK time
>
> I don't understand much about GAP (I'm not a mathematician), but I get
the feeling from the web site there are tons of packages.
most of them a very specialised, and people would be better off usign them
in
GAP directly. Some of them, moreover, as just interfaces to other CA
systems,
or contain such interfaces, and thus are largely useless within Sage.
At least one GAP package, ace, is packaged as a separate spkg
(and needs to be installed after gap_packages)
ace was broken since 4.3.3, and noone complained, so that's about how wide
the user base of a typical GAP package is in Sage.
(I fixed ace, by the way, there is a recent ticket opened by my, with a
ready fix)
> I wonder the logic of including a subset of them, when people would
probably be > better to get what they need. It will be almost impossible
to keep all the > packages upto date. Some, like !FactInt might have quite
wide appeal, but others I get the feeling are not so usefully included.
Anyway, I guess that is another issue.
>
I basically only have enough time to maintain and improve what I need in
Sage for my research and teaching. I am on a tenure-track...
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