[GAP Forum] New update of GAP released

[Justin C. Walker]

Dear Forum,

On Dec 19, 2008, at 04:23 , John McDermott wrote:

> Following the recent announcement of GAP 4.4.11, we announce the  
> release of
> GAP 4 release 4 update 12 (GAP 4.4.12 for short), which is available  
> now from
> the GAP Web pages and FTP site. We have made this release quickly  
> after the
> previous release due to the discovery of a bug introduced in GAP  
> 4.4.11 which
> could cause GAP to crash whenever a GAP function was executed while  
> certain
> loops or functions were parsed, for example via the hooks used for  
> prompt
> colouring.

I upgraded from p11 to p12, and then applied the recommended tests:
   gap> ReadTest(Filename(DirectoriesLibrary("tst"), "bugfix.tst"));

I got one "error":
   + Record Element: <rec> must be a record (not a boolean)

which comes from this line in "bugfix.tst":

# 2008/04/03 (JS)
gap> if LoadPackage( "atlasrep" ) <> fail then
 >      g:= Group( AtlasGenerators( "HS", 1, 4 ).generators );  <----
 >      ConjugacyClassesMaximalSubgroups( g );
 >    fi;

The problem is that
    AtlasGenerators( "HS", 1, 4 )
fails (returns 'fail').

FWIW, here's what GAP prints on startup (I have a workspace set up):

GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin9.5.0-gcc
Components:  small 2.1, small2 2.0, small3 2.0, small4 1.0, small5 1.0,
              small6 1.0, small7 1.0, small8 1.0, small9 1.0, small10  
0.2,
              id2 3.0, id3 2.1, id4 1.0, id5 1.0, id6 1.0, id9 1.0,  
id10 0.1,
              trans 1.0, prim 2.1  loaded.
Packages:    ACE 5.0, Alnuth 2.2.5, Polycyclic 2.4, nq 2.2, GAPDoc 1.2,
              AClib 1.1, CrystCat 1.1.3, Cryst 4.1.6, AtlasRep 1.4.0,
              CTblLib 1.1.3, TomLib 1.1.4, Automata 1.12, AutomGrp  
1.1.4.1,
              FGA 1.1.0.1, AutPGrp 1.2, CRISP 1.3.2, FactInt 1.5.2,
              IRREDSOL 1.1.2, LAGUNA 3.4, Sophus 1.23, Polenta 1.2.7,
              ResClasses 2.5.3  loaded.

Regards,

Justin

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