On 03/26/15 05:08, Thomas Kahle wrote:
Hi,
dev-libs/ntl is at 8.1.2 already (we have 6.* in the tree). I'd work on
the bump if nobody else is.
For the 6.* versions there is a patch which implements an error callback
mechanism which is used in sage. In the 8.* versions ntl has its own
error callback, but it has a different interface than the one in our patch.
Will sage (when?) be able to deal with ntl's native mechanism or do we
need the patch? I can translate it to the new version, but it may make
no sense.
For now I think sage should stick with ntl-6.*. Victor (ntl upstream) is
now on the sage-devel mailing list and is ready to help sage move on.
Sage and packages used by sage are his main consumer after all.
But right now no one has started the transistion.
I think I may make noise for sage 6.7, at the moment we are
re-organizing some of the code wrapping ntl and it may not be advisable
to change the version at the same time.
The following packages also need checking:
flint
singular (does 4.* depend on ntl as well)
eclib
linbox
I'll have a look at the one that still belong to the s-o-g overlay.
Francois
