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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-bc7429fe09
2017-07-31 14:28:20.562967
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Name : gap-pkg-browse
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 1.8.7
Release : 1.fc26
URL :
http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Browse/
Summary : GAP browser for 2-dimensional arrays of data
Description :
The motivation for this package was to develop functions for an
interactive display of two-dimensional arrays of data, for example
character tables. They should be displayed with labeled rows and
columns, the display should allow some markup for fonts or colors, it
should be possible to search for entries, to sort rows or columns, to
hide and unhide information, to bind commands to keys, and so on.
To achieve this our package now provides three levels of functionality,
where in particular the first level may also be used for completely
other types of applications:
- A low level interface to ncurses: This may be interesting for all
kinds of applications which want to display text with some markup and
colors, maybe in several windows, using the available capabilities of
a terminal.
- A medium level interface to a generic function NCurses.BrowseGeneric:
We introduce a new operation Browse which is meant as an interactive
version of Display for GAP objects. Then we provide a generic
function for browsing two-dimensional arrays of data, handles labels
for rows and columns, searching, sorting, binding keys to actions,
etc. This is for users who want to implement new methods for browsing
two-dimensional data.
- Applications of these interfaces: We provide some applications of the
ncurses interface and of the function NCurses.BrowseGeneric. These
may be interesting for end users, and also as examples for programmers
of further applications. This includes a method for browsing
character tables, several games, and an interface for demos.
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Update Information:
Changes in version 1.8.7: - Removed the example application
'BrowseTransitiveGroupsInfo', because of changes in the underlying library of
transitive groups. - Added the new application 'BrowseBibliographyGapPackages'.
(This is experimental, strange *.bib files in package distributions may cause
error messages.) - Added a new application that facilitates demos of GAP code,
see '?Browse: Utility for GAP Demos' for details. - The input code 127 is
assumed to denote the backspace key also if 'NCurses.keys.BACKSPACE' has a
different value, which apparently happens for some Mac operating systems; up to
now, entering backspace had no effect with such systems. [This bug had been
reported and analyzed by Max Horn.] - 'NCurses.Select' now supports the replay
and log features of 'NCurses.BrowseGeneric'. Note that meanwhile several
applications call 'NCurses.Select', now we can provide examples for them that
are processed automatically, and debugging is easier.
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade gap-pkg-browse' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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