gap: Groups, Algorithms, Programming - a system for computational discrete algebra

Description

GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. See also the overview and the description of the mathematical capabilities. GAP is used in research and teaching for studying groups and their representations, rings, vector spaces, algebras, combinatorial structures, and more. The system, including source, is distributed freely. You can study and easily modify or extend it for your special use.

This is a stripped-down version of GAP. The databases, which are architecture-independent, are in a separate package.

Upstream Contact

http://www.gap-system.org

David Joyner, wdjoyner@gmail.com (on the GAP team, but Steve Linton, sal@dcs.st-and.ac.uk, is basically the lead developer)

Dependencies

  • Readline

  • MPIR

Special Update/Build Instructions

This is a stripped-down version of GAP. The downloading of the sources and removal of unneeded parts is done by the script spkg-src. When you update GAP, please also update and use the spkg-src script.

  • Do we really want to copy everything from the build directory???

    You need the full GAP tree to compile/install many GAP packages.

  • There’s apparently a command missing (in spkg-install) building the (HTML?) documentation. Earlier changelog entries as well as the description above state the documentation was removed from the upstream sources… Since the (pre-)built HTML documentation is currently included, I’ve commented out some lines in that part of spkg-install. -leif

Patches

  • writeandcheck.patch: fix infinite loop in writeandcheck() when writing an error message fails.

Type

standard

Version Information

package-version.txt:

4.11.0.p1

Equivalent System Packages

arch:

$ sudo pacman -S  gap

conda:

$ conda install gap

Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install  gap

freebsd:

$ sudo pkg install gap

nix:

$ nix-env --install gap

See https://repology.org/project/gap/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27330