On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 19:54, Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> wrote:
> But, given that I will have to put continued effort into this, I would > like to hear the views of others here on the extent to which they > believe there is still a need for this. > I think to get a better response and also create some dynamic, is to put the situation for people to consider on www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ . There you'll find the top brass in cpp development, even ISO Commission members and one of the moderators of /r/cpp (Stephan T. Lavavej, commonly known as STL, which obviously also stands for the (C++) Standard Template Library) is also in charge, the man, of library development within Microsoft. The fact that MPIR is a C library is not relevant as it is common in the C++ world to have these low-level libraries in C and write wrappers and extensions around it. Boost.org, for one, has such a wrapper. I think such a post might create quite a stir and will get people thinking about a situation where there no longer will be an MP library on Windows (including Microsoft). I think the best home for MPIR is within Microsoft. It will have to continue to be OSS and will obviously have to respect it's LGPL license. They also have to in-roads into Intel, ARM and AMD, which I guess in this case is (or can be) rather helpful. degski -- *“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein* -- 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.
