Hi all, After a very long alpha/beta release cycle, MPIR 2.6.0 has finally been released!
It is available from our website http://mpir.org/ This release is dedicated to the memory of Jason Moxham who passed away recently. The main new features in this release are: * new FFT implementation for multiplying huge integers * better support for 64 bit integers on Windows 64 * Python build generator for MSVC builds * various bug fixes Please report any bugs/success stories on our development list. The future of MPIR ================== As a result of the loss of Jason Moxham, the core MPIR development team has shrunk to two members (there are of course also numerous other developers who help us test our releases and who submit bug reports every release cycle). Brian Gladman and I agree that two core developers is not enough for sustainable development of MPIR. Therefore we would like to make an appeal for volunteers to join our team. We are especially looking to find some talented assembly language programmers and individuals with experience coding low-level fast arithmetic in C. We recognise that there aren't many such people out there, but then again, we don't need many to take MPIR forward into the future. We have also recently decided to switch to using Git for our repository. This means it will be possible to fork MPIR trivially on GitHub and work in independent branches. We hope this will make MPIR development more streamlined. We are open to other suggestions about how MPIR might be improved for future development effort. If you are interested in helping out, please contact us on our Google Groups development list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mpir-devel or email myself or Brian privately. Bill Hart. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
