[GAP Forum] Package updates: ANUPQ 3.0, ACE 5.0

[Greg Gamble]

Dear GAP Forum,

This is to announce the release of ANUPQ 3.0 and ACE 5.0.

Both packages are available from the GAP website:

http://www.gap-system.org

and my websites:

http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Greg.Gamble/   (Aachen, Germany)
http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~gregg/            (Perth, Australia)
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~gregg/              (Brisbane, Australia)

There is no urgency for users  to  upgrade  either  package.  The  new
versions are *not* backward-compatible to versions of GAP prior to GAP
4.4. Thus, users of these packages must  *not*  upgrade  if  they  are
still using GAP 4.3 (and must continue to use ANUPQ 2.2 and ACE  4.1),
though such users are strongly encouraged  to  upgrade  their  GAP  to
version 4.4, in which case it makes sense to upgrade ACE and ANUPQ  at
the same time.

Neither package contains new features nor fixes any  outstanding  bugs
(the previous versions of ACE and ANUPQ are not known to  contain  any
bugs). These new versions of the packages update  them  fully  to  GAP
4.4; all obsolete  pre-GAP  4.4  code  has  been  removed.  While  GAP
continues  to  support  `ReadPkg'  (and,  in  the   case   of   ANUPQ,
`PrimeOfPGroup') users of ANUPQ and ACE may continue to use ANUPQ  2.2
and ACE 4.1, safely.

In the case of ANUPQ, the  `IsPqIsomorphicPGroup'  has  been  improved
thanks to suggestions from Marco Costantini and  Jack  Schmidt.  Users
installing ANUPQ  are  urged  to  use  testPq  to  check  for  correct
installation (and can be confident they do have a correct installation
if it responds as described in the README).

For ACE also, one of the internal functions has  been  simplified  (by
removing GAP  4.2  compatibility).  Users  doing  a  ReadTest  of  the
tst/aceds.tst file of the package should be aware  that  if  the  only
difference is one of timing then their installation  is  quite  ok  (a
cputime of 0 just means the relevant instruction took less than 5ms).

  Regards,
  Greg Gamble