Re: [mpir-devel] Eiffel interface to MPIR

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
Damn, I forgot to add this to our documentation. I'll do it now in svn and instead offer a link from the MPIR website. Sorry for the omission. Bill. On 7 April 2010 03:37, Bill Hart wrote: > You can provide binaries, but you of course need to also provide the > source, so that any user of the bi

[mpir-devel] Intention to parallelise

2010-04-07 Thread Antony Vennard
Hello all, I'm Antony, a new recruit to the MPIR development team and am announcing my intention to (try to) bring parallel processing to MPIR. I'd love to say I'll be leading the effort but its more the case that I'll be staggering in the right direction (or maybe just any direction) and acceptin

Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR Announcement

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
I've updated the website with rc1, including what I think is the current testing status. Please notify of any omissions, corrections or otherwise. Also, if anyone can help fill out the testing matrix, please let us know. Bill. On 7 April 2010 19:25, MPIR Team wrote: > Dear All, > > Despite our

Re: [mpir-devel] icc on itanium

2010-04-07 Thread Jason Moxham
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 20:08:07 Bill Hart wrote: > Just wondering if we actually got MPIR working on icc in the end? I > recall the two Jasons were working towards this, but I lost track of > the final status. I could close the ticket if fixed and remove the > Known Problem notification if so.

[mpir-devel] icc on itanium

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
Just wondering if we actually got MPIR working on icc in the end? I recall the two Jasons were working towards this, but I lost track of the final status. I could close the ticket if fixed and remove the Known Problem notification if so. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR Announcement

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
Great! Once again, welcome on board! Bill. On 7 April 2010 19:55, Antony Vennard wrote: > Oh, so *this* is the real announcement! :D > > On a more serious note, my comments from last time still stand - I'm not > sure about the political necessity of some features of the v3 licenses, > but they s

Re: [mpir-devel] Files missing after make dist

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
Fixed in rc1. Thanks Jason! Bill. On 7 April 2010 19:58, Jason Moxham wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2010 19:43:29 Bill Hart wrote: >> Hmm, I already noticed one defect. The GPL and LGPL v2 license files >> don't get picked up by make dist. Actually I don't know how to add >> them. Jason Moxham

Re: [mpir-devel] Files missing after make dist

2010-04-07 Thread Jason Moxham
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 19:43:29 Bill Hart wrote: > Hmm, I already noticed one defect. The GPL and LGPL v2 license files > don't get picked up by make dist. Actually I don't know how to add > them. Jason Moxham do you know? > > As some of the files are still LGPL v2+ licensed, we are supposed to

Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR Announcement

2010-04-07 Thread Antony Vennard
Oh, so *this* is the real announcement! :D On a more serious note, my comments from last time still stand - I'm not sure about the political necessity of some features of the v3 licenses, but they still protect the essentials of open source (I've reviewed them more closely since the joke I took to

[mpir-devel] Files missing after make dist

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Hart
Hmm, I already noticed one defect. The GPL and LGPL v2 license files don't get picked up by make dist. Actually I don't know how to add them. Jason Moxham do you know? As some of the files are still LGPL v2+ licensed, we are supposed to have a copy of that in there. The files in svn are gmp-2.0.tx

[mpir-devel] MPIR Announcement

2010-04-07 Thread MPIR Team
Dear All, Despite our recent April Fools prank: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/d2777413749f37e5 the MPIR developers have actually been considering a switch to an LGPL v3+ license for a while, for the following reasons: 1) Maintaining GMP interface compatibility -