I don't think that is something we can cover on the MPIR website. You might consider "Windows support", "FSF copyright assignment" and other issues.... It should just be clear that GMP won't, by and large, just accept our contributions. You might also consider that numerous individuals *did* try to contribute their improvements to GMP.
I agree the the fork was intimately tied up with this stuff. But again, let's be positive about MPIR's current focus. I don't think we need to revisit this on the website. Bill. On 24 May, 19:34, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 24 Mai, 20:13, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > OK, I made a little bit of a change to the "about" section of the MPIR > > website. It now has: > > > "MPIR is an open source multiprecision integer (bignum) library forked > > from the <a href="http://gmplib.org/";>GMP (GNU Multi Precision)</a> > > project. It consists of much code from past GMP releases, in > > combination with much original contributed code." > > > I doubt that addresses the concern you had, but it is, in my opinion, > > clearer and simpler than what we had. In particular I removed the bit > > about originally being a fork of GMP 4.2.1 (which was LGPL v2+), etc. > > I don't think that information is particularly useful or serving any > > definite purpose any more, though there wasn't anything particularly > > wrong with it. > > > But again, I'm happy to change something if it isn't clear, or perhaps > > I should say that the new MPIR webmaster will (I've just been > > transferring credentials over for that). > > (primary goals:) "To maintain full interface support with GMP - MPIR > is a drop-in replacement for GMP." > > So it isn't clear why MPIR forked rather than contributing their > enhancements to GMP. > (And one may ask himself why and when he should use MPIR instead of > GMP and vice versa.) > > -Leif > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
