passagemath-gap-pkg-normalizinterface 10.6.39__cp310-cp310-macosx_13_0_arm64.whl

gap/pkg/normalizinterface/CHANGES

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+This file describes changes in the NormalizInterface package.
+
+1.4.1 (2025-06-20)
+  - Janitorial changes
+
+1.4.0 (2025-04-14)
+  - Update to Normaliz 3.10.2 (as usual this implies many breaking
+    changes, e.g. input type `lattice_ideal` has been renamed to
+    `normal_toric_ideal` while at the same time `lattice_ideal` has
+    a new meaning that is not quite compatible with how it worked before.
+    So beware and carefully study the Normaliz manual)
+  - Various janitorial changes
+
+1.3.7 (2024-07-07)
+  - Require C++14 (as Normaliz or rather e-Antic sometimes needs it, and
+    it seems OK to require a C++ compiler made in the last 10 years
+  - Require GAP >= 4.12.1 and use that to simplify some code and scripts
+  - Improve the code which tries to automatically find GMP headers
+
+1.3.6 (2023-05-19)
+  - Improve compatibility with an upcoming GAP update
+  - Minor janitorial changes
+
+1.3.5 (2022-11-05)
+  - Rename `build-normaliz.sh` to `prerequisites.sh` to match an
+    undocumented convention used across several packages.
+  - Minor build system tweaks
+
+1.3.4 (2022-08-07)
+  - Fix regression that broke building NormalizInterface on macOS
+
+1.3.3 (2022-07-08)
+  - Update to Normaliz 3.9.3
+  - Improve build system to honor CPPFLAGS environment variable
+  - Explicitly set a so-called "run path" / "rpath" when linking against the
+    bundled copy of Normaliz (improves compatibility with future versions of
+    the GAP compiler `gac`, which will not be using GNU libtool anymore)
+
+1.3.2 (2022-02-24)
+  - Fix building on Cygwin
+
+1.3.1 (2022-02-19)
+  - Fix building on FreeBSD
+
+1.3.0 (2021-10-31)
+  - Update to Normaliz 3.9.1
+  - Improve the new build system
+  - Various janitorial changes
+
+1.2.0 (2020-03-26)
+  - Update to Normaliz 3.8.4
+  - New build system
+  - Various janitorial changes
+
+1.1.0 (2019-08-23)
+  - Add support for rational inputs, e.g. polytopes with rational coordinates
+  - Update build system for improve compatibility with GAP >= 4.9
+  - Completely rewrote build-normaliz.sh (now downloads a tarball using
+    curl or wget, instead of cloning a git repository)
+  - Fix a potential crash when freeing proxy cone objects
+  - Fix 'unknown cone property' that could occur when using newer versions of
+    Normaliz, e.g. version 3.5.4
+  - Display the Normaliz version as part of banner string
+  - Loads of internal and janitorial changes
+  - Require Normaliz 3.5.4 or newer (and add support for its new features)
+  - Sebastian Gutsche is no longer package maintainer
+
+1.0.2 (2017-12-04)
+  - Use variable rays instead of Rays in test file
+
+1.0.1 (2017-11-30)
+  - Use TestDirectory, adapt to upcoming GAP build system changes
+  - Detect C++11 capabilities of compiler, add c++11 flag if necessary
+
+1.0.0 (2017-09-06)
+  - update to libnormaliz 3.4.0
+    * added cone properties
+    * added wrappers for new normaliz functionality
+
+0.9.8 (2016-05-07)
+  - update to libnormaliz 3.1.1
+
+0.9.7 (2016-03-10)
+  - fix a bug in the conversion between GAP and Normaliz integer values,
+    which could lead to wrong results for integers with absolute value
+    roughly between 2^32 and 2^60
+  - fix crash when using StructuralCopy on a cone (issue #38)
+  - fix printing of certain integers on 32bit systems (issue #36)
+  - give better diagnostics when loading NormalizInterface fails due
+    to its kernel extension missing
+
+0.9.6 (2016-02-27)
+  - upgrade to Normaliz version 3.1.0
+  - fix wrong file permissions in package archive
+
+0.9.5 (2016-02-01)
+  - improve build-normaliz.sh
+  - upgrade to Normaliz version 3.0.90
+
+0.9.4 (2016-01-16)
+  - README: update installation instructions
+  - README: explicitly state that the license is GPL v2 or later
+
+0.9.3 (2016-01-10)
+  - Fixes and changes in PackageInfo.g
+  - Tweak README.md to autolink URLs in it
+
+0.9.2 (2016-01-07)
+  - Fix installation instructions in manual
+
+0.9.1 (2016-01-07)
+  - Initial pre-release for public
+

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gap/pkg/normalizinterface/PackageInfo.g

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+SetPackageInfo( rec(
+
+PackageName := "NormalizInterface",
+Subtitle := "GAP wrapper for Normaliz",
+Version := "1.4.1",
+Date    := "20/06/2025", # dd/mm/yyyy format
+License := "GPL-2.0-or-later",
+
+Persons := [
+  rec(
+    LastName      := "Gutsche",
+    FirstNames    := "Sebastian",
+    IsAuthor      := true,
+    IsMaintainer  := false,
+    Email         := "gutsche@mathematik.uni-siegen.de",
+  ),
+
+  rec(
+    LastName      := "Horn",
+    FirstNames    := "Max",
+    IsAuthor      := true,
+    IsMaintainer  := true,
+    Email         := "mhorn@rptu.de",
+    WWWHome       := "https://www.quendi.de/math",
+    PostalAddress := Concatenation(
+                       "Fachbereich Mathematik\n",
+                       "RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau\n",
+                       "Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße 48\n",
+                       "67663 Kaiserslautern\n",
+                       "Germany" ),
+    Place         := "Kaiserslautern, Germany",
+    Institution   := "RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau"
+  ),
+
+  rec(
+    LastName      := "Söger",
+    FirstNames    := "Christof",
+    IsAuthor      := true,
+    IsMaintainer  := false,
+    Email         := "csoeger@uos.de",
+  ),
+],
+
+Status         := "deposited",
+#CommunicatedBy := "name (place)",
+#AcceptDate     := "mm/yyyy",
+
+SourceRepository := rec(
+    Type := "git",
+    URL := Concatenation( "https://github.com/gap-packages/", ~.PackageName ),
+),
+IssueTrackerURL := Concatenation( ~.SourceRepository.URL, "/issues" ),
+PackageWWWHome  := Concatenation( "https://gap-packages.github.io/", ~.PackageName ),
+README_URL      := Concatenation( ~.PackageWWWHome, "/README.md" ),
+PackageInfoURL  := Concatenation( ~.PackageWWWHome, "/PackageInfo.g" ),
+ArchiveURL      := Concatenation( ~.SourceRepository.URL,
+                                 "/releases/download/v", ~.Version,
+                                 "/", ~.PackageName, "-", ~.Version ),
+ArchiveFormats  := ".tar.gz .tar.bz2",
+
+AbstractHTML :=
+  "The <span class='pkgname'>NormalizInterface</span> package provides\
+  a GAP interface to <a href='https://www.normaliz.uni-osnabrueck.de'>Normaliz</a>,\
+  enabling direct access to the complete functionality of Normaliz, such as\
+  computations in affine monoids, vector configurations, lattice polytopes, and rational cones.\
+  ",
+
+
+PackageDoc := rec(
+  BookName  := "NormalizInterface",
+  ArchiveURLSubset := [ "doc" ],
+  HTMLStart := "doc/chap0_mj.html",
+  PDFFile   := "doc/manual.pdf",
+  SixFile   := "doc/manual.six",
+  LongTitle := "GAP wrapper for Normaliz",
+),
+
+Dependencies := rec(
+  GAP                    := ">= 4.12.1",
+  NeededOtherPackages    := [ ],
+  SuggestedOtherPackages := [ ],
+  ExternalConditions     := [ ]
+),
+
+AvailabilityTest := function()
+    local path;
+    # test for existence of the compiled binary
+    if not IsKernelExtensionAvailable("NormalizInterface") then
+       LogPackageLoadingMessage( PACKAGE_WARNING,
+           [ "kernel functions for NormalizInterface not available." ] );
+      return false;
+    fi;
+    return true;
+  end,
+
+
+# Show the Normaliz version number in the banner string.
+# (We assume that this function gets called *after* the package has been
+# loaded, in particular after libnormaliz has been loaded.)
+BannerFunction := function( info )
+  local str, version;
+
+  str := DefaultPackageBannerString( info );
+  if not IsBoundGlobal( "_NmzVersion" ) then
+    return str;
+  fi;
+  version := ValueGlobal( "_NmzVersion" )();
+  version := JoinStringsWithSeparator(version, ".");
+
+  return ReplacedString( str, "by Sebastian",
+             Concatenation( "(Normaliz version is ", version, ")\n", "by Sebastian" ) );
+end,
+
+Keywords := [
+  "normaliz",
+  "cones"
+],
+
+TestFile := "tst/testall.g",
+
+));

gap/pkg/normalizinterface/README.md

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+[![Build Status](https://github.com/gap-packages/NormalizInterface/actions/workflows/CI.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gap-packages/NormalizInterface/actions/workflows/CI.yml)
+[![Code Coverage](https://codecov.io/github/gap-packages/NormalizInterface/coverage.svg?branch=master&token=)](https://codecov.io/gh/gap-packages/NormalizInterface)
+
+# The GAP 4 package 'NormalizInterface'
+
+## Package description
+
+Normaliz is a software for computations with rational cones and affine
+monoids. It pursues two main computational goals: finding the Hilbert
+basis, a minimal generating system of the monoid of lattice points of a
+cone; and counting elements degree-wise in a generating function, the
+Hilbert series.
+As a recent extension, Normaliz can handle unbounded polyhedra. The
+Hilbert basis computation can be considered as solving a linear
+diophantine system of inhomogeneous equations, inequalities and
+congruences.
+
+This package allows creating libnormaliz cone objects from within GAP,
+and gives access to it in the GAP environment. In this way GAP can be
+used as interactive interface to libnormaliz.
+
+For more information on Normaliz visit
+<https://www.normaliz.uni-osnabrueck.de/>
+and especially have a look at the manual.
+
+
+## Installation
+
+NormalizInterface supports GAP 4.9 or later, and Normaliz 3.5.4 or later.
+However, we recommend using the most recent versions -- at the time this
+is written, that means GAP 4.14.0 and Normaliz 3.10.x.
+
+Assuming you have a suitable version installed, you still need to
+compile Normaliz. There is a complicating factor, however: Normaliz
+must be compiled against the exact same version of the GMP library
+as GAP. The easiest way to do that is to run the script we provide
+to you for just that.  This requires the presence of several further
+system software packages, which you could for example install via
+your system's package manager. At least the following are required,
+in addition to a C++11 compiler:
+
+ * curl OR wget for downloading the source code
+
+Once you have installed these, you can build Normaliz by using the
+`prerequisites.sh` script provided by us. If NormalizInterface is
+installed inside the `pkg` directory of your GAP installation, you
+can simply invoke it from inside the NormalizInterface directory as
+follows:
+
+    ./prerequisites.sh
+
+Otherwise, you have to tell the script where your GAP directory is,
+by passing it as an argument:
+
+    ./prerequisites.sh GAPDIR
+
+Not specifying GAPDIR is equivalent to passing `../..` as GAPDIR. If
+more than one argument is specified, then any arguments beyond the
+first are passed on to the Normaliz `configure` script.
+
+Once the script completed successfully, you can build NormalizInterface
+like this:
+
+    ./configure --with-gaproot=GAPDIR
+    make
+
+The ` --with-gaproot=GAPDIR` parameter is actually optional, and if omitted,
+the package will search for GAP in `../..`.
+
+
+## Documentation and tests
+
+Generate the documentation:
+
+    gap makedoc.g
+
+run automatic tests:
+
+    gap tst/testall.g
+
+
+## Bug reports and feature requests
+
+Please submit bug reports and feature requests via our GitHub issue tracker:
+
+  <https://github.com/gap-packages/NormalizInterface/issues>
+
+
+## License
+
+NormalizInterface is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+For details see the file LICENSE.