[GAP Forum] official acceptance of GAP packages OpenMath and SCSCP

[David Joyner]

Dear GAP Forum:

This is to announce the official acceptance of the GAP packages
OpenMath (written by Marco Costantini, Alexander Konovalov, Max
Nicosia, Andrew Solomon) and SCSCP (written by Alexander Konovalov,
Steve Linton), which requires OpenMath. Both packages are licenced
under the GPLv2+ license.

The OpenMath GAP package provides an OpenMath phrasebook for GAP. This
package allows GAP users to import and export mathematical objects
encoded in OpenMath, for the purpose of exchanging them with other
applications that are OpenMath enabled.

The GAP package SCSCP implements the Symbolic Computation Software
Composability Protocol for the GAP system. This protocol specifies an
OpenMath-based remote procedure call framework, in which all messages
are encoded in OpenMath. Using it, GAP can communicate locally or
remotely with any other OpenMath-enabled SCSCP-compliant application,
such as another computer algebra system, or another instance of GAP,
or even an external Java or C/C++ application. The new versions of
SCSCP and OpenMath packages are now included in the merged archive of
GAP 4.5 packages and published on the GAP website.

Congratulations to the package authors and thank you all for your hard work.

- David Joyner
(GAP Council editor for these packages)