On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:50 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:38 AM, dmharvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> > wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I have made a basic spkg for GMP 4.3.0: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/dmharvey/gmp-4.3.0.spkg
[...] >> Recently Sage switched from GMP to the MPIR fork. I make no secret of >> the fact that I disagree with this decision, although I did initially >> support MPIR. > > I just want to remind people that there is a lot more to take into > account when choosing > a library than just cherry picked benchmarks: > > * a wide range of benchmarks > * support for an important range of platforms and operating > systems > * the development process > * short and longterm goals > * talent of developers involved > * license > * copyright assignment requirements > * potential for financial support Of course neither GMP nor MPIR has the clear upper hand in all these criteria. >> I hope that Sage can figure out some way to incorporate >> the improvements in GMP 4.3.0 (as competing systems like Mathematica, >> Maple and Magma will soon surely do). I wish all forks could be as amicable as the Pyrex/Cython one, but understandably that is rarely the case. I support the reasons behind MPIR, but I think it's a very good thing to provide a GMP spkg for Sage--it gives users the choice. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
