[mpir-devel] Re: GMP/MPIR in Sage

2009-01-10 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 10, 8:03 am, "Bill Hart" wrote: Hi, > At the moment we don't use mpir.h. > > It should be possible for them to make a gmp-4.3.spkg. I don't see any > technical hurdles there. Yes, as mentioned in the other email getting something that works on at least a couple platforms is easy, but ma

[mpir-devel] Re: GMP/MPIR in Sage

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Hart
At the moment we don't use mpir.h. It should be possible for them to make a gmp-4.3.spkg. I don't see any technical hurdles there. Perhaps there will be some doctest failures due to different gcd functions being called, I don't know. Someone needed to fix the gmp spkg anyway. It was severely br

[mpir-devel] Re: GMP/MPIR in Sage

2009-01-10 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 10, 7:42 am, David Harvey wrote: > Hi, Hi David, > Suppose that, in a month or two, MPIR and GMP 4.3 have been released,   > and that the official Sage distribution now uses MPIR instead of GMP.   > Suppose that a friend of mine wants to run Sage using GMP instead of   > MPIR. Under th