Trust me, I have tested this code extensively for many, many, many hours on numerous systems, and yes I read your code carefully.
The particular piece of code you refer to is just being overcautious. I have left it in because it does no harm. 2009/10/19 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Harvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 19, 11:19 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > William, it's difficult for me to take this comment seriously. >>> >>> Given that it is meant as a joke (which I hoped would be clear), I >>> hope you will not take it seriously. >> >> So, do you have a serious opinion on this issue? I happen to think >> it's quite serious. For one thing, MPIR's apparent policy on >> rebranding proof-of-concept code as production code is making me >> reconsider my policy of publicly sharing code like this (or maybe I've >> just learned a very important lesson about permissive software >> licensing). > > My serious opinion regarding anybody's code going into any project is > that if they do not feel comfortable with it being released with that > project, then it definitely should not be released as part of said > project. If at all possible, the wishes of the author should be > respected (permissive software licenses aside). I fully understand > that you would be justifiably unhappy if in a few months, say, we find > some subtle bug in computation of Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology groups > (say), and it gets tracked back to "a bug in David Harvey's > dc_divappr_q_n code". > > I'm optimistic that including this particular code for 1.3 is just an > honest misunderstanding and that this will all get sorted out. > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
