Plans for submitting LINS to the GAP package distribution?

[fingolfin]

It would be great if this package was submitted for inclusion within the GAP package distribution.

Are there any blockers for this from your point of view?

[FriedrichRober]

This package was on hold for quite a while, so I need some time to get back into it again.

I was trying to make it more flexible how we traverse the lattice of normal subgroups and thus the interface for how we call the main function and what it returns was in the process of changing.

Currently I am not sure how much of the work was done and what was missing. I will look into it and create a milestone for a release, where I include all the blockers.

[hulpke]

I think even without any bells and whistles, a basic "Low Index Normal Subgroups" function would be a most welcome addition -- people ask for it regularly.

[fingolfin]

Still think this would be nice to have this published in the GAP distro. If you are not sure whether you have time to maintain the package, you could always add "The GAP Team" to the list of maintainers in the PackageInfo.g (see e.g. here for an example), and transfer this repository to gap-packages.

[FriedrichRober]

Yes, let's publish this on the GAP distro and move it to gap-packages. It doesn't seem likely that I will do the traversing suff due to time constraints. I am currently sick, so I will contact you on slack when I feel better and you can show me what to do.

[hulpke]

I'm very much in favor of distributing the package. Would it be possible to add a trivial function

LowIndexNormalSubgroups:=function(g,n)
local l;
  l:=LowIndexNormalSubgroupsSearchForAll(g,n);
  return List(List(l),Grp);
end;

to cater to users who just want a list of actual subgroups without the fancier features?

[FriedrichRober]

There was a name conflict with polycyclic. If we can fix this, then yes.

[fingolfin]

We have migrated LINS to the gap-packages organization, and some work was begun to prepare for a release.

[esabo]

If it counts, I use this package here https://github.com/esabo/CodingTheory/blob/master/src/tilings.jl and would like to see it in the distro when possible. Thanks :)