Bill, As a suggestion on something that could be removed from MPIR, had you considered removing the mpf code? I was under the impression that MPIR was going to concentrate on multiple-precision integers and rationals, and leave multiple-precision floating-point to MPFR.
Mariah On Mar 20, 11:30 pm, Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > I suppose it's just aggregation. > > > Maybe we need to get rid of the bit that says, "overall licensed > > LGPL". Is that still permitted, when some component of the distro is > > GPL? > > Sounds like a good idea. > > > Actually the reason for me wanting to perhaps get rid of the demos was > > more to do with the fact that I don't know anyone who uses them. Very > > clear examples in the documentation would probably be much more > > useful. > > I haven't looked at the demos, but I did want to use the benchmark and > I didn't get to it until your posted howto (not that it was that hard, > but I was lazy). I expect more people will use it if "make bench" just > works. > > I'm not arguing to keep the demos, nor I am saying that benchmark code > should not be rewritten and expanded. But just not because of > licensing. > > > Anyhow, it's no big deal. Just an idea. I suppose the thing that set > > off that thought process for me was Brian saying it took forever to > > check out MPIR via his internet connection. We are carrying some fat. > > There's no reason to not have the demos on the website. Can't come up > > with as clear a case for leaving them in the library source. > > Sounds fair if demos are indeed big, I have no idea how much space > they take (otoh, I think Brian was updating the root of the svn repo > instead of just trunk). The benchmark code is about 6kb compressed... > not too bad. > > Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
