On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 05:39:28AM -0800, Max Alekseyev wrote: > There is a new version 2.2.9 availble at the official website > http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/download.html > Although it called Development version, it's the only precompiled version > currently offered to windows users, and so it should be well suitable for > Debian testing/unstable as well. > Current stable version 2.1.6 is quite outdated and misses many features.
Hello Max, I am well aware of the development version 2.2.9 and the new feature it offers given I have contributed to a large number of them. The precompiled version for Windows is based on the development version because the stable will not build under cygwin. However, I don't feel that 2.2.9 is suitable for Debian: this version has several nasty bugs. For example: ? isprime(798125329,2) %1 = 0 (should be 1 since 798125329 is prime). Also, being a development snapshot, both the API and the ABI will change in the next release, which does not make it suitable for use as a shared library. Given that, I am not keen to push that version to the next Debian stable release (due soon), which will be the case if I upload it to unstable now. However, at some point, I might consider to package separatly the CVS version as a snapshot. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
