Hello all and Happy New Year! Some recent updates to the GAP www site:
1. New packages: IO (provides bindings for GAP to the lower levels of Input/Output functionality in the C library) by Max Neunhoeffer 2. Recently updated packages: Circle (provides functionality to compute in the adjoint groups of associative rings) by Alexander Konovalov and Panagiotis Soules Design (for constructing, classifying, partitioning and studying block designs) by Leonard H. Soicher LieAlgDB (provides access to some classifications of small-dimensional Lie algebras) by Willem De Graaf and Csaba Schneider radiroot (can compute and display an expression by radicals for the roots of a solvable, rational polynomial) by Andreas Distler RDS (provides functions for finding relative difference sets in non-abelian finite groups by complete enumeration - especially those defining projective planes) by Marc Roeder UnitLib (library of normalized unit groups of modular group algebras of finite p-groups over the field of p elements for all finite p-groups of order not greater than 128) by Alexander Konovalov and Elena Yakimenko Wedderga (provides Wedderburn decomposition tools for any group algebra) by Angel Del Rio Mateos, Aurora Olivieri, Alexander Konovalov, Gabriela Olteanu, Osnel Broche Cristo Package authors only: 1. I'd like to remind package authors, if I may, to please consider adding to their package a file which describes the history or changes to their package. An excellent example is DESIGN, which includes this information in the README file: http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/pkg/design/README.design 2. I'd also like to ask package authors, if I may, to please consider adding to their package a file which describes the distribution license of their package. Again, an excellent example of a GAP package which does this is DESIGN, which includes this information in the README file. It may also do in a file called COPYING or LICENSE. An excellent example of a license to use is the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/), which is used by GAP. Thanks for your consideration! - David Joyner _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
