Commits on Oct 7, 2019

1. Deprecate extra args for {Declare,Install}GlobalFunction …

   The extra argument was never documented for `InstallGlobalFunction`. In
   contrast, for `DeclareGlobalFunction`, the documentation for a long time
   claimed that it required exactly (!) two arguments, although all
   examples only showed one argument, and the documentation never said what
   the other argument was supposed to do. Various people then made
   differing guesses as to the supposed meaning of the extra arguments:
   some put in an info string; some put in a list of input filters; some
   just a single filter. This PR removes several of these from the GAP
   library itself.
   
   Various packages still use these extra arguments, and loading them will
   trigger the warnings. Some already fixed it in their repositories and
   just need to make releases. When the time comes for releasing GAP 4.12,
   we can see if all packages are adapted, and then depending on that
   either turn the warning into an error; or conversely, increase the
   warning level to 2, to hide it from regular users who might be confused
   by the message.

   

   fingolfin committed Oct 7, 2019
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