[GAP Forum] GAP 4.5.5 release

[Alexander Konovalov]

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.Aitchison at dpmms.cam.ac.uk	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna


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