Dear Dr. Aitchison, dear GAP Forum, Thank you for this question - yes, we do intend to announce GAP 4.5.6, 4.5.7 etc. - in fact, I've just sent the announcement to the GAP Forum, prompted by your question. What we may not announce each time is when e.g. GAP 4.5.6 will be re-wrapped with an updated selection of packages - these updates will be only listed at http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/index.html
Please be aware that not all alternative distributions listed at http://www.gap-system.org/Download/#alternatives may be updated to GAP 4.5.6 simultaneously with making the new release publicly available via the GAP website, though all their maintainers have a commitment to update them within several days. These alternatives normally have a way to figure out easily which version of GAP do they offer. Best wishes, Alexander On 20 Sep 2012, at 17:39, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Alexander Konovalov wrote: > >> Please note that we will regularly update the GAP distribution to include >> new versions of GAP packages, but we will not announce each of them to the >> Forum. We intend to use the Forum to announce updates of the core GAP >> system and only of some packages which may fix serious issues or have >> major influence on GAP. > > I see that 4.5.6 has been released. > > I had understood "updates of the core GAP system" to mean that > I would see an announcement of 4.5.6 here, but I have not. > Have I misunderstood ? > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra University of St Andrews Tel +44/0 (1334) 461633 http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk Fax +44/0 (1334) 463278 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland:No.SC013532 _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
