[GAP Forum] GAP 4.8.2 release announcement

[Alexander Konovalov]

P.S. Only if you are using Windows:

1) We strongly advise to use the executable Windows installer for GAP:

http://www.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap48/exe/gap4r8p2_2016_02_20-18_51.exe

which will update all bat-files automatically. Note that the path to the 
GAP directory should not contain spaces. For example, you may install it 
in C:\gap4r8(default), D:\gap4r8p2 or C:\Math\GAP\gap4r8, but you must 
not install it in a directory named like C:\Program files\gap4r8 or 
C:\Users\alice\My Documents\gap4r8 etc.

2) In GAP 4.8.2 for Windows, there are no compiled binaries for the Browse
package and there is no readline support. We hope to fix this in GAP 4.8.3

3) There is an experimental 64-bit version of GAP for Windows, also available
from http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/. As it is experimental, some packages
may not work there. To install it, you need to unzip the archive and adjust 
*.bat files manually. We will be interested to hear any feedback about its 
usability.

Best wishes
Alexander




> On 26 Feb 2016, at 16:42, Alexander Konovalov <alexk at mcs.st-and.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> This is to announce the release of GAP 4.8.2, which could be downloaded from
> 
> 	http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/
> 
> This is the first major release made from the GAP repository on GitHub
> (at https://github.com/gap-system/gap). An overview of the most 
> significant ones is provided below. A more detailed version with 
> hyperlinks is available on the GAP website here: 
> 
> 	http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/changes/chap2.htm