From alexander.konovalov at st-andrews.ac.uk Mon Jun 11 10:34:30 2018 From: alexander.konovalov at st-andrews.ac.uk (Alexander Konovalov) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:34:30 +0000 Subject: [GAP] GAP website is currently down for maintenance Message-ID: <7C328B26-AFB3-4E6B-BBA3-8AEFF7AD2882@st-andrews.ac.uk> GAP website is currently down (to apply firmware updates to the server). It should be back online soon. Alex From max.horn at math.uni-giessen.de Fri Jun 15 14:54:10 2018 From: max.horn at math.uni-giessen.de (Max Horn) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:54:10 +0200 Subject: [GAP] Release schedule for GAP 4.10 Message-ID: <2A8508FC-F500-4A6D-ABFE-A1A374504AAD@math.uni-giessen.de> Dear all, during the recent GAP-Jupyter Days in St Andrews, we agreed on the following preliminary release schedule for GAP 4.10: - 2018-09-01 branching of stable-4.10 - 2018-10-01 release of GAP 4.10.0 - 2018-11-01 release of GAP 4.10.1 (first user release) So, any changes you'd like to see in GAP 4.10 should ideally be submitted as PRs before September. We'll perform some limited backporting of changes after the stable-4.10 has been created, but ideally we'd like to keep this to a minimum. This schedule is preliminary in so far as of course major regressions or other unforeseen events may make it necessary to adjust it. But we'll try to stick to it. Best wishes, Max -- Prof. Dr. Max Horn AG Algebra Mathematisches Institut Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en Arndtstra?e 2 D-35392 Gie?en Tel: (+49) 641 99-32044 Fax: (+49) 641 99-32049 E-Mail: mhorn at math.jlug.de From Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux.fr Fri Jun 15 15:43:19 2018 From: Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux.fr (Bill Allombert) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:43:19 +0200 Subject: [GAP] Release schedule for GAP 4.10 In-Reply-To: <2A8508FC-F500-4A6D-ABFE-A1A374504AAD@math.uni-giessen.de> References: <2A8508FC-F500-4A6D-ABFE-A1A374504AAD@math.uni-giessen.de> Message-ID: <20180615144319.GA538@yellowpig> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Max Horn wrote: > Dear all, > > during the recent GAP-Jupyter Days in St Andrews, we agreed on the following > preliminary release schedule for GAP 4.10: > > - 2018-09-01 branching of stable-4.10 > - 2018-10-01 release of GAP 4.10.0 > - 2018-11-01 release of GAP 4.10.1 (first user release) This is soon. What is the planned scope of this release ? Cheers, Bill. From alexander.konovalov at st-andrews.ac.uk Sat Jun 16 00:31:39 2018 From: alexander.konovalov at st-andrews.ac.uk (Alexander Konovalov) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 23:31:39 +0000 Subject: [GAP] Release schedule for GAP 4.10 In-Reply-To: <20180615144319.GA538@yellowpig> References: <2A8508FC-F500-4A6D-ABFE-A1A374504AAD@math.uni-giessen.de> <20180615144319.GA538@yellowpig> Message-ID: <5D654D5C-DCD9-4D58-8879-EEDD1965C97D@st-andrews.ac.uk> > On 15 Jun 2018, at 15:43, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Max Horn wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> during the recent GAP-Jupyter Days in St Andrews, we agreed on the following >> preliminary release schedule for GAP 4.10: >> >> - 2018-09-01 branching of stable-4.10 >> - 2018-10-01 release of GAP 4.10.0 >> - 2018-11-01 release of GAP 4.10.1 (first user release) > > This is soon. What is the planned scope of this release ? Cleaning up the kernel and libraries post the master and hpcgap-default merge, and (hopefully) having a way to allow to link GAP as a library; this is based on the libGAP code by SageMath, but different. We hope that then a future version of SageMath can drop its custom modifications for GAP and use this interface instead. You can see release notes consolidating on Wiki here: https://github.com/gap-system/gap/wiki/GAP-4.10-release-notes and also note that there a query in the 2nd paragraph there to see fresh changes not yet incorporated into release notes. Best, Alex From markus.pfeiffer at st-andrews.ac.uk Wed Jun 20 12:55:32 2018 From: markus.pfeiffer at st-andrews.ac.uk (Markus Pfeiffer) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:55:32 +0100 Subject: [GAP] OpenDreamKit Success (Short-)Story In-Reply-To: <20180612092726.oxyfnah244zgkenl@mistral> References: <20180612092726.oxyfnah244zgkenl@mistral> Message-ID: <86h8lxwu2z.fsf@st-andrews.ac.uk> Dear all, here's a success short-story I wanted to share, because ODK completely made this possible. This morning a summer student came to my office to ask about GAP installation. She had a MacBook (which I don't know anything about) and Xcode didn't want to install. All she wanted to do were some quick computations with GAP to see whether it does what she wants. After 3 minutes of despair I gave her this link: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/gap-system/gap-docker-binder/master One-Click-Driveby-GAP in about 0 minutes, we could immediatelly discuss what problem she wanted to solve in GAP. This is how this has to be. Cheers, Markus