Sounds reasonable to me as a stop gap solution until something more modern is finalised.
It can still in theory fail to factor an integer, so don't rely on it too heavily for anything critical. In practice it's ok, but you know some people get a bit upset about things like that. As things are, I wonder if anyone has ever used it, actually, except as an example. Bill. On Sunday, 13 December 2015 01:06:24 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > Then how about we make a repo for it in the github.com/sagemath org, any > objections? > > > On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 12:56:23 AM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> No there is no upstream repository for this. >> >> We had a couple of GSoC students working on the quadratic sieve this >> year, but neither finished the project. >> >> We do have someone working on parallel linear algebra for the QS, and so >> at some point this will initiate some more action in cleaning up the Flint >> QS and including it in modern Flint. >> >> But there's no one to work on this, currently. >> >> Bill. >> >> On 13 December 2015 at 00:47, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Its makefile does not pass through LDFLAGS amongst others, so that needs >>> fixing. >>> >>> We have been patching around it in a while, the tarball is apparently >>> based on a SVN snapshot from 2007. The SPKG.txt says it is at >>> https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fastlibnt/trunk/QS but that URL >>> does no longer work. >>> >>> Does the quadratic sieve code have an upstream repo? What should we do >>> with it? >>> >>> >>> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
