Re: [sage-devel] eclib dependencies

2023-11-16 Thread John Cremona
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 12:15, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2023-11-16 09:23:15, John Cremona wrote: > > > > If no-one has any reason to keep things as they are I will make a PR with > > the relevant changes to build/pkgs/eclib. > > From a packaging standpoint, fewer dependencies is better. For >

Re: [sage-devel] eclib dependencies

2023-11-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2023-11-16 09:23:15, John Cremona wrote: > > If no-one has any reason to keep things as they are I will make a PR with > the relevant changes to build/pkgs/eclib. >From a packaging standpoint, fewer dependencies is better. For example, upgrading flint would become a tiny bit easier if we

Re: [sage-devel] eclib dependencies

2023-11-16 Thread John Cremona
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 09:44, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > On 16 November 2023 09:23:15 GMT, John Cremona > wrote: > >Currently the eclib spkg has pari, ntl and flint as dependencies. The > >first two are essential, but flint is currently hardly used and everything > >works without it. (It is

Re: [sage-devel] eclib dependencies

2023-11-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 16 November 2023 09:23:15 GMT, John Cremona wrote: >Currently the eclib spkg has pari, ntl and flint as dependencies. The >first two are essential, but flint is currently hardly used and everything >works without it. (It is only used at all to compute the ref of a matrix >(with entries

[sage-devel] eclib dependencies

2023-11-16 Thread John Cremona
Currently the eclib spkg has pari, ntl and flint as dependencies. The first two are essential, but flint is currently hardly used and everything works without it. (It is only used at all to compute the ref of a matrix (with entries int or long int) mod p and if flint is not available it just