[issue40874] Update to libmpdec-2.5.0

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> added the comment:

You are talking to the author of libmpdec *and* the _decimal module.
Perhaps this problem has occurred to me, too:


$ diff -ur mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec cpython-commit/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: .objs
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: Makefile.in
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: Makefile.vc
diff -ur mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec/README.txt cpython-commit/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/README.txt
--- mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec/README.txt 2020-06-27 21:41:49.000000000 +0200
+++ cpython-commit/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/README.txt 2020-06-29 13:46:45.379299458 +0200
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 Mike Cowlishaw/IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.
 
 
+Files required for the Python _decimal module
+=============================================
+
   Core files for small and medium precision arithmetic
   ----------------------------------------------------
 
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: bench.c
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: bench_full.c
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: examples
Only in cpython-commit/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/: mpdecimal.h
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: mpdecimal.h.in
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: mpdecimal32vc.h
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: mpdecimal64vc.h
Only in mpdecimal-2.5.0/libmpdec: mpsignal.c



You are the one here who wants to ship a non-recommended libmpdec
version with Python-3.9.

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