[GAP Forum] Announcement of the update to GAP 4.4.10

[Max Neunhoeffer]

Dear Justin and GAP Forum,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:00:16AM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> Dear Max and GAP Forum,
> 
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Max Neunhoeffer wrote:
> 
> >We are delighted to announce the release of GAP 4 release
> >4 update 10 (GAP 4.4.10 for short), which is available now
> >from the GAP Web pages and FTP site. The priority of this
> >upgrade is high, since it contains among other things fixes
> >for bugs which can return wrong results without warning. All
> >users should update to this release as soon as possible.
> 
> Thanks for the hard work you and the GAP team have put into GAP, and  
> in particular, for the effort to support Mac OS X.
> 
> I have a question about the information on this page:
>    <http://www.gap-system.org/Download/upgrade.html>
> 
> Is it the case that "MacOS" refers only to versions of Mac OS  
> preceding Mac OS X?  Also, it is stated there that only the .zoo  
Yes this was meant. 
> archive contains support for "MacOS", but I noticed that at least  
> the .bz2 archive also contains "GAP 4 PPC" (which I assume is a Mac  
> OS 9 binary).
We chose to put the Mac OS 9 binary into all versions of the archives 
from 4.4.10 on since it might be interesting for some users to use other
archives than the .zoo archives on Mac OS 9. We simply forgot to remove 
the note on the web page, which I did just now.

Thanks for the hint,
  Max.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Justin
> 
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