[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] Re: Flint-2.6.0 alpha release (testing requested)

2020-05-21 Thread 'Bill Hart' via sage-devel
Thanks Dima!

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 12:31, Dima Pasechnik  wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:40 PM 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel
>  wrote:
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Commit a960857c7d8e5ea7c4d4c2958e38ec52778d85d9  of the Flint
> > repository [1] is now flint-2.6.0-alpha2
> >
> > This is the last chance for developers working on related projects to
> > see if Flint works as expected for them, before we start asking end
> > users/distributions to start testing.
> >
> > We have made many modifications since alpha1, including:
> >
> > * removing all known memory leaks
> > * fixing a bug in the integer gcd (leak, inefficiency, very slim
> > chance of wrong answer)
> > * properly supporting GMP-6.2
> > * making matrices with zero rows/columns more robust
> > * many other less important fixes (35 commits total)
> > * fixing a bug/crash in the _f functions in the fmpz_mod_poly module
> >
>
> OK, so now it passes on everything I tried it on (most exotic:
> clang-8.0.1 on OpenBSD, with NTL enabled)
> Will now try to test it with Sage (https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29719)
>
>
> > We don't foresee the need for any further alpha releases, (assuming no
> > major issues are found). The next release will likely either be a beta
> > or release candidate. Please note the only important things that
> > remain to be done as far as we know are documentation/paperwork
> > related [2].
> >
> > Please report bugs on our GitHub issue tracker. Successful builds can
> > be reported here.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > The Flint Development Team
> >
> > P.S. thanks to the Flint package maintainer in the Fedora project who
> > did early reporting/patching of many issues and to the numerous people
> > who gave feedback on the first alpha! Many more acknowledgements to
> > come in the release announcement!
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/wbhart/flint2
> > [2] https://github.com/wbhart/flint2/milestone/2
> >
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[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] Re: Flint-2.6.0 alpha release (testing requested)

2020-05-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:40 PM 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel
 wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> Commit a960857c7d8e5ea7c4d4c2958e38ec52778d85d9  of the Flint
> repository [1] is now flint-2.6.0-alpha2
>
> This is the last chance for developers working on related projects to
> see if Flint works as expected for them, before we start asking end
> users/distributions to start testing.
>
> We have made many modifications since alpha1, including:
>
> * removing all known memory leaks
> * fixing a bug in the integer gcd (leak, inefficiency, very slim
> chance of wrong answer)
> * properly supporting GMP-6.2
> * making matrices with zero rows/columns more robust
> * many other less important fixes (35 commits total)
> * fixing a bug/crash in the _f functions in the fmpz_mod_poly module
>

OK, so now it passes on everything I tried it on (most exotic:
clang-8.0.1 on OpenBSD, with NTL enabled)
Will now try to test it with Sage (https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29719)


> We don't foresee the need for any further alpha releases, (assuming no
> major issues are found). The next release will likely either be a beta
> or release candidate. Please note the only important things that
> remain to be done as far as we know are documentation/paperwork
> related [2].
>
> Please report bugs on our GitHub issue tracker. Successful builds can
> be reported here.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> The Flint Development Team
>
> P.S. thanks to the Flint package maintainer in the Fedora project who
> did early reporting/patching of many issues and to the numerous people
> who gave feedback on the first alpha! Many more acknowledgements to
> come in the release announcement!
>
> [1] https://github.com/wbhart/flint2
> [2] https://github.com/wbhart/flint2/milestone/2
>
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