On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 5:09 AM Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The present design with two optional packages gap_packages and
> database_gap was dictated in the 1st place by copyright issues with
> their contents, preventing them from being standard.
>
> Since GAP release 4.9, all these issues have been resolved upstream,
> and I propose these spkgs to be merged into the standard GAP spkg. The
> upstream GAP tarball already contains everything we install there (and
> more).
>
> With this, Sage's GAP would be much closer to the upstream GAP, and
> packagers of Sage would be made happier too.
>
> As a part of the update to GAP 4.10, I've already merged database_gap
> into gap spkg on
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26856
>
> Unless I hear well-motivated objections (no, don't tell me about big
> tarballs and increased by 3 minutes build time), I'll proceed with
> doing the same to gap_packages.
>

+1


>
> Dima
>
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