Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

2012-01-05 Thread Florent Angly
On 04/01/12 01:34, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 01/03/2012 03:43 PM, Florent Angly wrote: Good question! I see three advantages of the Pure-perl approach: 1/ It should work on all platforms, including the hurd-i386, where the C/XS approach does not work The failure on hurd-i386 is trivial to

Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

2012-01-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 12/24/2011 12:32 PM, Florent Angly wrote: * Package name: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl This module implements the same pseudorandom number generator found in Math::Random::MT (libmath-random-mt-perl Debian package), which is implemented in C/XS. What would be the use of the

Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

2012-01-03 Thread Florent Angly
On 03/01/12 21:58, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, On 12/24/2011 12:32 PM, Florent Angly wrote: * Package name: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl This module implements the same pseudorandom number generator found in Math::Random::MT (libmath-random-mt-perl Debian package), which is implemented

Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

2012-01-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 01/03/2012 03:43 PM, Florent Angly wrote: Good question! I see three advantages of the Pure-perl approach: 1/ It should work on all platforms, including the hurd-i386, where the C/XS approach does not work The failure on hurd-i386 is trivial to fix (just include stdint.h like on Linux).

Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

2011-12-24 Thread Florent Angly
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florent Angly florent.an...@gmail.com * Package name: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl Version : 1.06 Upstream Author : Dr James Freeman airmedi...@gmail.com * URL : hhttp://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Random-MT-Perl/ * License