For the record, this is explained in the new developer manual which you can find in SAGE_ROOT/src/doc/output/html/en/developer/index.html
On Monday, December 23, 2013 2:47:32 PM UTC, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > I've opened #15574 for updating FLINT in Sage. > It should be trivial, though I've had no time to craft an spkg yet (or > rather make what's needed in the new workflow). > > On Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:10:09 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> We are pleased to announce the release of flint 2.4. >> >> FLINT is a C library for arithmetic in support of Number Theory, >> including polynomial arithmetic and linear algebra over Z, Z/nZ, Q, >> p-adics, q-adics, F_q, and univariate factorisation over those rings. It >> depends on GMP or MPIR and MPFR. >> >> There's a vast array of new features in this release, which we try to >> summarise below. >> >> Source code: >> >> http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.tar.gz >> >> Documentation (624 pp.): >> >> http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.pdf >> >> The flint-2.4 release contains around 220,000 lines of code. >> >> Selected benchmarks are available on our **new website**: >> >> http://flintlib.org/ >> >> Happy Christmas, >> >> The FLINT Team. >> >> Major New Features (1479 new commits) >> ===================================== >> >> Here are the major new features provided by the 2.4 release: >> >> * C++ expressions template wrapper [1] >> >> * Fast factorisation of polynomials over Z/nZ [2, 3] >> >> * improved p-adics [4] >> >> * polynomials/matrices over p-adics [4] >> >> * qadics [4] >> >> * Finite fields (small and large F_q), polynomials/matrices over F_q [4, >> 5, 6] >> >> * Finite fields with Zech logarithm representation [6] >> >> * Fast factorisation of polynomials over F_q [6] >> >> * Faster Brent-Kung modular composition [2] >> >> * New prime sieving code [7] >> >> * Lambert-W function [7] >> >> * Precomputed inverses for polynomials and large integers [2, 8] >> >> * Williams' P+1 integer factoring algorithm [8] >> >> * Harvey's KS2/KS4 polynomial multiplication [10] >> >> * Faster primality testing up to 64 bits [9] >> >> * Support for Cygwin64 and MinGW64 >> >> * Support for Clang >> >> * Support for GMP >> >> * Support for Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC >> >> * Better ARM support >> >> * Support for flint extension modules, e.g: >> >> -- Arb -- Arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic [7] -- >> floating point balls, polynomials, matrices and calculus >> over real and complex numbers with rigorous error bounds, >> elementry functions, Bernoulli numbers, gamma function, >> zeta function, hypergeometric series, partition function >> (http://fredrikj.net/arb/) >> >> -- ANTIC -- Algebraic Number Theory in C [8] -- >> arithmetic of general number fields, binary quadratic forms, >> quadratic class numbers >> (https://github.com/wbhart/antic) >> >> -- BLAND -- Generic recursive rings [7] -- >> (https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/bland) >> >> Contributors >> ============ >> >> (At least) the following people contributed to flint-2.4, including code >> contributions, bug reports, corrections to the documentation and patches: >> >> Tom Bachmann, Martin Lee, Lina Kulakova, Andres Goens, Mike Hansen, >> Sebastian Pancratz, Fredrik Johansson, William Hart, Dana Jacobsen, >> Michael Jacobson Jr., Mike Stillman, Jan Englehardt, Jean-Pierre Flori, >> Jeroen Demeyer, Shi Bai, Qingwen Guan, Frithjof Schulze, Robert >> Baillie, >> Oleksandr Motsak, Hans Schoenemann, Janko Boehm, Ahmad Soliman >> >> Acknowledgements >> ================ >> >> [1] Tom Bachmann -- Google Summer of Code 2013 >> [2] Martin Lee -- DFG Priority program SPP1489 >> [3] Lina Kulakova -- Google Summer of Code 2012 >> [4] Sebastian Pancratz -- ERC Grant 204083 >> [5] Andres Goens -- DFG Priority program SPP1489 >> [6] Mike Hansen -- Macaulay2 developers NSF Grant 1002171 >> [7] Fredrik Johansson -- Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant Y464-N18 >> [8] William Hart -- EPSRC Grant EP/G004870/1 and DFG Priority program >> SPP1489 >> [9] Dana Jacobsen's verification of flint's primality test using Feitma's >> tables >> [10] Code ported from David Harvey's zn_poly -- >> (http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/code/zn_poly/) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
