> Actually GMP is far from stale. Anyway, I put the chances of a > viable GMP fork in the next year at 1% (see below). > > It would be very useful to figure out what the situation is with Singular's > licensing plans. Do they have a mailing list or something? > > -- William > > Why I think GMP won't be fork: Torbjörn is > really the organizing force behind GMP, as far as I can tell, and he > seems completely OK with LGPLv3 as a license for GMP. I don't know > of > any serious players who have the necessary resources and who are > interested in forking GMP, and the license change from LGPLv2 to LGPLv3 > likely has no impact on Maple and almost none on Magma. Basically > before any of this LGPLv3 stuff, various people have made noise about > forking GMP for more serious reasons, and nothing happened, so I doubt it > would happen now.
I also have serious doubts that GMP will be successfully forked. I looked into doing this myself, and the simple, painful, truth is that the build scripts in GMP are more complicated than the mathematics. (And, several times a year, someone on the GMP mailing lists suggests forking the project, to which Torbjörn always responds, "go ahead," but I can't find any successful GMP forks on the web.) Maintaining build scripts for assembly level code for hundreds of platforms has got to be a painfully tedious task that no one else wants to take on. Torbjörn may be somewhat tough to work with, but you have to give the guy credit: he's probably one of the best all around programmers on the planet. So, I think that there is only one realistic option: Sage must go "v2 or later". --jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
