On Apr 16, 11:57 am, Sergey Bochkanov <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello, Bill.
>
> You wrote 16 апреля 2010 г., 12:23:43:
>
> > What you suggest is to effectively maintain two versions of MPIR, one
> > version 2.1 the other 3.
>
> No,  quite  the  opposite.  I  am talking about plugin-based framework
> where  framework itself is 2.1, and some plugins are 3.0, some are 2.1
> too.  Here 'plugin' means either implementation of mpn-function or one
> of the higher layer functions.
>
> I  don't know MPIR's internals good enough, but I thought that library
> is modular: i.e. you can change mpn internals without affecting higher
> layers  and  you  can  change implementation of some function  without
> affecting another functions.
>
> >  We  did  consider  such  an  option,  but it is much harder than it
> >  seems,  and  we simply don't have sufficiently many contributors to
> >  manage that,  
>
> Could you point me out one or two of the difficulties? May be there is
> a way to workaround them...
>
> > there  seems  to  be  a  lot  of  interest  in contributing to a BSD
> > licensed  library.  Another  individual I asked about this said they
> > thought  it  was  a  great idea and that one of the main things that
> > puts  them off currently is the LGPL.
>
> What is wrong with LGPL as long as it is 2.1? Currently I see only one
> drawback  -  it can't be used in a BSD open source project. However, I
> know of no BSD open source project which may be interested in multiple
> precision.
>
> --
> With best regards,
>  Sergey                          mailto:[email protected]
>
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