Rational numbers

[aleaxit at gmail.com]

On Feb 23, 12:00 pm, cas... at comcast.net wrote:
   ...
> > > + gmpy is looking pretty unmaintained (dead) to me (newest update of
> > > cvs 10 months ago).
>
> I worked withAlex Martelli(gmpy's maintainer) to fix a bug found by
> mensanator. With Alex's permission, I released it as gmpy 1.04a. Alex
> has not updated cvs with the fix.

Heh, I see why one might get that impression -- I'm in the process of
moving gmpy from sourceforge (where I find it harder and harder, and
ever more problematic, to work) to code.google.com 's new hosting
facility -- gmpy 1.02 prerelease (more updated than that "1.04a", and
particularly including your fix, Case) is already available at
http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/ but I have made no official
announcement yet (partly because what's available is yet limited:
sources, and binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 but only for MacOSX
10.4 on Macs with intel processors)... building binaries for Windows
(not having a Windows machine or development system) or Universal
binaries for the Mac (due to problems building Universal versions of
the underlying GMP in its latest, 4.2 incarnation... I'm running out
of PPC-based Macs, and have none left with MaxOSX 10.3...) is much
more problematic for me.

To call this (Google Code) release 1.02, with a "1.04" (?) out from
another source, may be confusing, but I'd rather not "force" the
number upwards

I do have one new co-owner on the Google Code "version" of gmpy (Chip
Turner, once author of a similar GMP wrapper for perl, now a Python
convert and a colleague of mine) but I suspect that won't make the
building of Windows (and Universal Mac) binaries much easier.  If
anybody who has easy access to Microsoft's MSVC++.NET (and is willing
to try building GMP 4.2 with/for it), or a PPC Mac with XCode
installed (possibly with MacOSX 10.3...), wants to volunteer to build
"the missing binaries" for the platforms that the current owners of
gmpy can't easily support, we could complete, test and release the
definitive 1.02, and move on with the development (I could get
enthusiastic about this again, if I could develop just the sources,
and the binaries for the one architecture I really use -- Macs w/intel
-- rather than strive each time with binaries for architectures that
are quite a pain for me...!-).

Anybody who's interested in helping out is welcome to mail me and/or
use the "wiki" and "issues" entry of the Google Code gmpy site...


Thanks,

Alex