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From: fbissey@××××××××××××.nz
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-science] clisp and pari-2.5
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:05:20
Message-Id: 20110823100002.tqso4swwogkwo4s4@webmail.slingshot.co.nz
1 Hi,
2
3 A week or two ago, Andrey shared his concerned about the incompatibilities
4 between clisp and pari-2.5.0. I have looked a the situation a bit more deeply
5 and a fix won't be easy. clisp has been a few deprecated object for a while.
6 Also the glue between libpari and lisp has been done right on the lisp side. I
7 am not confident about that.
8
9 I think it would be prudent to restrict clisp to pari-2.3 for now. Hopefully
10 clisp upstream will move to pari-2.5. It certainly will be painful.
11 Apart from slotting we could possibly ship a separate libpari-2.3 sitting on its
12 own (i.e. without the gp interpreter or the help system, just libpari and its
13 headers). That would be an extreme measure if we decide to get rid of pari-2.3
14 and clisp cannot be fixed.
15
16 Francois