Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>
* Package name : ocaml-num Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> * URL : https://github.com/ocaml/num/ * License : LGPL 2.1 with OCaml linking exception Programming Lang: OCaml, C Description : legacy Num library for arbitrary-precision integer and rational arithmetic This library implements arbitrary-precision arithmetic on big integers and on rationals. This is a legacy library. It used to be part of the core OCaml distribution (in otherlibs/num) but is now distributed separately. New applications that need arbitrary-precision arithmetic should use the Zarith library (https://github.com/ocaml/Zarith) instead of the Num library, and older applications that already use Num are encouraged to switch to Zarith. Zarith delivers much better performance than Num and has a nicer API. Several packages depends on this in Debian, including: scilab, z3, coccinelle, ocaml-batteries. The package will be maintained by the ocaml-team.
