On Oct 28, 8:55 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 27, 11:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>
>
> >> > We had a vote on this a month or two back and then then consensus was
> >> > not to include gp2c per default. I agree that the patch should be
> >> > merged, though.
>
> >> Yes, that's what happened.
>
> >> I think the better way for gp2c to get into sage is for it to be
> >> standard in pari itself. Then it will automatically be in Sage.
> >> Have you proposed that it be included standard in pari yet?
>
> >> By the way, Karim Belebas told me numerous times that Sage
> >> should use the latest snapshot version of pari instead of the
> >> stable version we use now.
>
> > I did build a pari-2.4.3.spkg at SD 10 and while gen.pyx passes
> > doctests there were problems with the gp doctests. I did take some
> > notes about which patches no longer applied and which patches had been
> > merged, so if anyone wants to try his/her luck let me know.=
>
> Can you post these notes to a trac ticket and post the number
> here? That said, Karim made it crystal clear to me that he
> very strongly recommends that we use:
> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unstable/pari-2.4.2.alpha.tar.gz
Ok, I wasn't precise above: I did upgrade to the 2.4.3svn release. I
still do have that spkg around.
> He says calling it "unstable" is misleading -- it should be viewed like
> "debian testing", and said he'll actually be changing the name soon.
> Karim -- I've cc'd you -- if you want to add anything, please do.
>
> William
>
Cheers,
Michael
> William
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