On 8/21/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, I have found several curves for which simon_two_descent() > fails (including an infinite loop) which I am gradually fixing, and > will upload patches for when done. The current case of concern is one > where pari 2.3.2 (as in sage 2.8) fails while pari 2,4,2 does ok -- I > have told Karim about that, but wonder what the plan is for updating > the version of pari in sage?
The strategy with PARI is: (1) use the stable release when it comes out for a few months... until it becomes hopelessly out of date, because everybody who is anybody knows one should use the devel version, then (2) switch to the devel version for the next year or two. It's probably getting close to time to switch to the pari-2.4.* version. It's really annoying that pari uses the old stable/unstable development model. The linux kernel used to be like that until *fortunately* Linus realized it is a really bad model for development and switched to a more standard model. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
