On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have started work on the remaining fft code. We had a few other
> things to sort out for the release (bugfixes etc.) so I can't give a
> precise timeline, even for my part of the work.
>
> The major stall has first of all been the release of flint which took
> much, much longer than anticipated and over the past few weeks an
> extremely serious and worrying personal matter (which seems to be
> resolved, for now).
>
> I am not in a position to make any promises. But the work is underway.
>
> Bill.
Thank you for the prompt reply.

Case
>
> On 12 July 2012 03:33, Case Van Horsen <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Several months ago, Brian created an experimental branch (mpir-exp)
>> that included support for 64-bit native integers in the API on the
>> 64-bit Windows platform. He also integrated the start of a promising
>> new FFT implementation. I updated gmpy2 to use Brian's experimental
>> branch. With the 64-bit integer support, I was able to fix several
>> limitations and bugs on 64-bit Windows platforms.
>>
>> I assumed that development would continue, the new FFT implementation
>> would be finished, and I could release a real production version of
>> gmpy2 within a reasonable time-frame. Unfortunately, it looks like
>> development of MPIR has stalled. To the best of my knowledge, the FFT
>> implementation has never been finished. MPIR 2.5.2 hasn't been
>> released. Support for 64-bit native integers has not been migrated to
>> trunk.
>>
>> There was flurry of activity a few weeks ago. I was optimistic that
>> development of MPIR would continue. But development seems to have
>> stalled again. Is there a plan to complete the mpir-exp branch? If
>> yes, what is the timeline? If not, please say so. One of the goals of
>> MPIR was predictable releases. Is that still a goal?
>>
>> I would like to release a production version of gmpy2 within a few
>> weeks. I don't want to base a production version on an experimental
>> branch that may never be completed. What should I do?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Case
>>
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