> Am 18.12.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org>:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 05:07:14PM +0100, Max Horn wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>>> GAP used 4rxpy as version number for a long time.
>>
>> I can not find any evidence supporting this. Even GAP 2 and 3 used
>> x.y.z, as can be seen e.g. here:
>> <https://www.gap-system.org/Gap3/status3.html> or here
>> <https://www.gap-system.org/Doc/History/history.html>.
>>
>> As fas as I know, the only place the r and p were ever used was in the
>> archive names. And I am pretty sure the reason for this was that on
>> the Atari ST, the TOS file system (which essentially was FAT)
>> restricted file names to 8.3 format, with no periods allowed in the
>> filename, other than for the file extension. Hence the substitution,
>> eg to gap3r4p4.zoo which fits exactly into the 8.3 limit.
>
> Looking at my archives, it seems I am actually responsible for the error.
> The confusion stem from the archive file which was named gap4r3n3 (with a n)
> that unpacked to a directory 'gap4r3'.
>
> i will fix that for GAP 4.11.
Awesome, thank you!
>
> I assume it is the same for GAP packages versions ?
Yes, indeed.
Cheers,
Max
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
>
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