On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 10:42 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Oct 19, 4:47 am, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've just put up MPIR 1.3 release candidate 1. We are still waiting on >> >> some >> >> final testing from Jeff Gilchrist, which will probably happen tomorrow. If >> >> everything is fine, the release candidate will become the final release. >> >> > Wait a sec.... you are actually releasing my dc_divappr_q_n code, as >> > is, in a production release??!! >> >> > Despite our earlier conversation? >> >> > It's marked "trial implementation" and "proof-of-concept", and even >> > contains comments like >> >> > /* FIXME: hmmmm my test suite doesn't seem to generate this case, >> > is it actually possible at all? */ >> >> For fun, I tried to find your code by searching for FIXME and got: >> >> wst...@sage:~/tmp/mpir-1.3.0$ grep -r FIXME *|wc -l >> 365 >> >> So there is something to fix every day next year... > > William, it's difficult for me to take this comment seriously.
Given that it is meant as a joke (which I hoped would be clear), I hope you will not take it seriously. > You take a remarkably cavalier attitude towards the correctness of > MPIR, considering how much the validity of your research results > depends on it. I personally find that a good sense of humor helps both software development and research. Anyway, this is off topic, so my apology for posting off topic. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
