At Sage days 15 at the University of Washington, I spoke about FLINT and how I soon hoped to open it up completely for contribution from others. Since then an enormous amount of code has been contributed, especially, Andy Novocin and Sebastian Pancratz and also by Burcin Erocal.
I also spoke about a new FLINT 2 project and anticipated that development of FLINT 1 would cease. However both projects are still going strong! As part of the process of opening up FLINT development I have just set up three massive development pages: FLINT 1 - the original FLINT project, still going strong: http://www.flintlib.org/flint1.html FLINT 2 - the new beaut FLINT, a complete rewrite from scratch (early days): http://www.flintlib.org/flint2.html And just for fun, a Basic interpreter which uses FLINT: http://www.flintlib.org/flintbas.html Of course we still have the main FLINT website: http://www.flintlib.org/ and the devel list http://groups.google.co.uk/group/flint-devel?hl=en FLINT is part of Sage and is used for the Z[x] and Z/nZ[x] modules in Sage. One of the new big development directions will be linear algebra over Z and Z/nZ in FLINT, and multivariate polynomial arithmetic and we hope this will eventually be useful to Sage, and other subprojects one day too. Eventually, it is envisioned that FLINT will be a complete number theory library extending the capabilities of Sage, probably with an emphasis on algebraic number theory and modular forms. Due to a large grant I received from EPSRC it has been possible to devote some of my time to computational work and I am in the process of hiring a postdoc (applications have closed) in modular forms who may also contribute to either FLINT or to Sage itself. If anyone has any interesting Number Theory projects which they want to implement in C or which they've been thinking about putting into FLINT, we'd love to hear about them on our devel list. Or just sign up if you'd like to keep up with what's going on! Bill. -- 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
