On Apr 21, 8:06 pm, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> The only doctests that break are the xgcd ones, right? This has been > an issue before, and so I think perhaps the doctests should be improved. Also some doctests related to modular symbols. I don't know enough about this area to tell whether it's xgcd related or whether it's really a new bug in GMP. > > Over time, it's inevitable that the APIs of the two packages will > > diverge, > > unless the projects can come to some kind of agreement. I can't see > > how this can be a good thing. > > You're right, I don't see this as a good long-term solution. I really > hope the two projects can come to some kind of agreement--the current > situation is in many ways a waste of time and recourses. Of course > this may be wishful thinking given the clashing of goals, licensing > issues, and personalities. However, the (upper level) gmp api is > pretty stable as far as api's go, so I think it's good to have this > option in the short term while the dust settles until a better > relationship between the projects can be reached. I am talking about the mpn-level interface, which is relevant for a lot of the things I work on. david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
