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Allow installing latest version of a package *in the package distribution #54

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fingolfin opened this issue Apr 10, 2020 · 3 comments
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The latest version of a package in the package distribution might be older than the latest version of the package; but it has the advantage of being "blessed" by the GAP team in the sense that we performed some extensive testing with it present.

Perhaps PackageManager could have an option to allow restricting to such a version. Slightly related to issue #53 in that the feature there would help with the feature requested here.

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Oh, and of course one could refine this further and wonder what happens if the GAP being run is outdated: If I run GAP 4.11 yet 4.12 is out, then some packages in the distribution might actually require GAP 4.12, so I shouldn't be updated to those... I guess that means we need different package distributions for each major GAP version. But actually we kinda have that. What is not clear to me is whether we have a nicely accessible list (e.g. as a JSON file) of these versions somewhere ... @alex-konovalov

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Either we already have a nice JSON list after GapWWW switch to Jekyll, or, if not, should add it to the new website content generating code.

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mtorpey commented Aug 30, 2024

This is captured well by #84, which should be a priority.

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