Dear All, We have recently updated the MPIR repository to fix a number of longstanding issues with MPIR and have begun a cleanup effort to lower the maintenance burden, so that this community project can be maintained into the future with a minimum of effort for the benefit of the community as a whole. The repository now passes all Linux and OSX continuous integration tests and modulo bugs reported on our issue tracker and lack of detection of recent CPUs, should function correctly.
You will see numerous changes in the next little while across the project, which we felt best to begin to announce now. The project remains a community supported project which accepts complete, working pull requests from the community as its only source of improvement. There is no "development team" actively developing the project. Some of the changes include the following: * Dr. Brian Gladman (the Windows maintainer) and Dr. William Hart (the Linux/Mac "maintainer"), have decided to separate the Windows MSVC and Linux/Mac builds of Linux to reduce the complexity of the project. * Dr. William Hart's GitHub repository [1] will move to a continuous release model, whereby it is maintained in a continuous state of usability on Linux and OSX, as tested by Travis/Appveyor CI. * Brian Gladman will distribute MSVC builds of MPIR from his GitHub account [2] and website [3]. * The MPIR project will direct support requests from ordinary users of MPIR to the relevant projects which make use of it, and respond only to developer support requests. * The focus will be on maintaining MPIR so it continues to *build* on Linux, OSX and Windows, and to *detect* newer CPUs (it does not currently do this -- check if ./config.guess is returning x86_64-... on your machine -- if so, your CPU is NOT detected -- pull requests to cpuid.c and configure.ac are welcome). We will make a formal announcement of all the changes that have been made in about a month, once the dust has settled a little. Unfortunately, we do not have time for extensive discussions in the mean time. We hope the changes will be of ultimate benefit to the community. Best Wishes, Dr. William Hart Dr. Brian Gladman. [1] https://github.com/wbhart/mpir/ [2] https://github.com/BrianGladman/mpir [3] http://www.gladman.me.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
