Re: [sage-devel] Gap packages

2012-06-02 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:18:08 UTC+2, David Joyner wrote: > > > > On Saturday, June 2, 2012, mmarco wrote: > >> If the maintainers of the gap_packages spkg agree, i would propose to >> include in it as many gap packages as possible. We could email the >> authors of the packages asking them for

Re: [sage-devel] Gap packages

2012-06-02 Thread David Joyner
On Saturday, June 2, 2012, mmarco wrote: > If the maintainers of the gap_packages spkg agree, i would propose to > include in it as many gap packages as possible. We could email the > authors of the packages asking them for permission to distribute them > under the GPL and include all the packages

Re: [sage-devel] Gap packages

2012-05-29 Thread David Roe
A number of people are working on transitioning Sage to git (see #13015), and the meaning of spkg will likely change dramatically in a way that affects 2 and 3. In particular, spkg install scripts for both standard and optional spkgs will be included in the sage repository, as will pointers to ups

Re: [sage-devel] Gap packages

2012-05-29 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:50 AM, mmarco wrote: > One of the complains i have heard from my colleagues that use sage > (and i have noticed myself) is the lack of certain gap packages in the > sage distribution.  There is an spkg with some of them, but most are > missing. Also, it is not easy to fin

[sage-devel] Gap packages

2012-05-29 Thread mmarco
One of the complains i have heard from my colleagues that use sage (and i have noticed myself) is the lack of certain gap packages in the sage distribution. There is an spkg with some of them, but most are missing. Also, it is not easy to find documentation on how to install gap packages in the sa

[sage-devel] GAP packages install error

2008-01-30 Thread Hy Ginsberg
Hi all, I am a brand-newbie. I tried to install the GAP packages and got an error. Sage told me to email this group, so here I am... I am running Xubuntu ("Feisty") on an HP-Compaq nc4010, in case that matters. The tail end of the error follows. Thanks in advance for any help. Hy Ginsberg Un