[RELEASE] mpdecimal-2.5.0

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hi Stefan

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:27:01 +0200
Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've released mpdecimal-2.5.0:
> 
>    http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/index.html
> 
> 15417edc8e12a57d1d9d75fa7e3f22b158a3b98f44db9d694cfd2acde8dfa0ca  mpdecimal-2.5.0.tar.gz
> 
> Starting with Python 3.9, this version should be used for an external libmpdec.
> 
> Python versions 3.7 and 3.8 should use the previous version mpdecimal-2.4.2.

Speaking of which, is there a plan to incorporate a C API to the
_decimal module?

Currently, there's no reliable way AFAIK, from C or C++, to take a
PyObject* and acccess the underlying `mpd_t*` directly, for fast
conversions.

Regards

Antoine.