On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:49 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Steve Graham scripsit: > >> Thanks, Mario. Worked like a charm. Why is that not part of the base >> package? > > Licensing. The numbers egg has to be GPL, because it depends on the GMP > (GNU Multi-precision Library) which is GPL.
numbers is BSD and hasn't depended on GMP since Peter rewrote it to use a heavily modified version of Scheme48's bignum code. numbers isn't in core mainly because Chicken tries to push functionality into eggs when possible. Jim _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
