William, Patch 11 of GAP 4.4 fixes a dozen of critical level bugs, ie bugs that potentially lead to wrong results! Eg getting wrong character tables, wrong results in range intersection... If a platform, like Itanium, was dropped, it is likely for a jolly good reason.
IMHO distributing a clearly buggy version is a very bad idea. Dmitrii On 30/11/2009, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM, dimpase <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP >> in place of the supplied one. >> Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old and (a bit) >> broken version of GAP, >> (well, I know that I can install a newer version by downloading the >> corresponding update) >> having two copies of GAP is awkward, just given the fact that a full >> installation of GAP with all >> the packages and libraries is quite huge. >> (well, maybe it is psychological difficulty, as I use (and >> occasionally develop small bits of) GAP since >> 1994... :)) >> > > Can you test if this will actually work by modifying the file > > SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/gap > > in your Sage install in the natural way? > > For quite a while we had to patch GAP so that it would work with the > Sage interface. > > I'm curious -- what in particular is broken about GAP-4.4.10? We > tried to ship 4.4.12, but found it to be "more broken"; in particular, > it didn't work on Itanium Linux boxes, which is one of our officially > supported platforms. > > -- William > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Sent from my mobile device Dmitrii Pasechnik ----- DISCLAIMER: Any text following this sentence does not constitute a part of this message, and was added automatically during transmission. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
