On Tuesday 25 May 2010 12:38:34 Bill Hart wrote:
> Someone has just pointed out that the mpir.texi document, from which
> our pdf documentation is generated contains:
>
> @c @author Original version by Torbj@"orn Granlund, Swox AB - modified
> by William Hart
> @c @email{[email protected]}
>
> So, not only did we not remove the original author information, but we
> correctly added additional author information!!
>
> Now, we are looking into why this isn't appearing on the title page of
> the pdf documentation. That appears to be a technical issue! We willnote the @c before the @author , that is a comment , I assume because @author crashed earlier pdf makes > also add "The GMP Development Team" as per the latest GMP > documentation. > > So, next time Mr. Granlund, check your facts before posting nonsense! > > Bill. > > On 24 May, 19:58, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think that is something we can cover on the MPIR website. > > > > You might consider "Windows support", "FSF copyright assignment" and > > other issues.... It should just be clear that GMP won't, by and large, > > just accept our contributions. You might also consider that numerous > > individuals *did* try to contribute their improvements to GMP. > > > > I agree the the fork was intimately tied up with this stuff. But > > again, let's be positive about MPIR's current focus. I don't think we > > need to revisit this on the website. > > > > Bill. > > > > On 24 May, 19:34, leif <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24 Mai, 20:13, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > OK, I made a little bit of a change to the "about" section of the > > > > MPIR website. It now has: > > > > > > > > "MPIR is an open source multiprecision integer (bignum) library > > > > forked from the <a href="http://gmplib.org/";>GMP (GNU Multi > > > > Precision)</a> project. It consists of much code from past GMP > > > > releases, in combination with much original contributed code." > > > > > > > > I doubt that addresses the concern you had, but it is, in my opinion, > > > > clearer and simpler than what we had. In particular I removed the bit > > > > about originally being a fork of GMP 4.2.1 (which was LGPL v2+), etc. > > > > I don't think that information is particularly useful or serving any > > > > definite purpose any more, though there wasn't anything particularly > > > > wrong with it. > > > > > > > > But again, I'm happy to change something if it isn't clear, or > > > > perhaps I should say that the new MPIR webmaster will (I've just been > > > > transferring credentials over for that). > > > > > > (primary goals:) "To maintain full interface support with GMP - MPIR > > > is a drop-in replacement for GMP." > > > > > > So it isn't clear why MPIR forked rather than contributing their > > > enhancements to GMP. > > > (And one may ask himself why and when he should use MPIR instead of > > > GMP and vice versa.) > > > > > > -Leif > > > > > > -- > > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > > > [email protected] For more options, visit this > > > group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > > > -- > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this > > group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- 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.
