#8906: Optional package for gap3
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Reporter: mrobado | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.4.2
Component: optional packages | Keywords: gap3
Author: Marco Robado | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Burcin Erocal | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by mvngu):
Replying to [comment:5 burcin]:
> Note that the COPYING file doesn't exist in the original gap3
distribution. We decided to make one after it took us a while to discover
the license has a non-commercial use restriction.
Could you document that in the file `SPKG.txt`? Future
reviewers/maintainers might not know about this.
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> > 1. The directory `src/` contains one package within another:
>
> This is just how the gap3 source is laid out. There are gap library
files, and gap packages in the other directories. I don't see why this is
a problem.
Could you document that in the file `SPKG.txt`? Future
reviewers/maintainers might not know about this.
[[BR]][[BR]]
> What is in the spkg is very far from the original gap3 distribution. The
changes couldn't be tracked with patches, so there is a mercurial
repository in the src directory.
Could you document that in the file `SPKG.txt`? Future
reviewers/maintainers might not know about this.
[[BR]]
As you can tell, I raised the above objections because the file `SPKG.txt`
did not document the reasons why the spkg was structured as given.
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