Re: Sagemath: going further
On 02/03/2015 11:59 AM, David Bremner wrote:
> Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> The problem is that Sage patched libcdd and added features that are not
>> included upstream [1]. The changes are actually not that big. The new
>> features are in cdd_both_reps.c and the rest should be mostly a switch
>> of the random number source to something deterministic, I guess to avoid
>> problems with tests.
>
> I haven't had a chance to look at the changes in cdd_both_reps.c, but I
> wonder if they really need to be in cddlib, or if this just seemed
> easiest at the time. Anyway, it's on my list of things to think about;
> polymake, which I'm in the process of packaging, also embeds a copy of
> cddlib; in that case it needs to link to the library compiled two
> different ways: floating point and gmp arithmetic.
>
> Alas, no definite schedule from my end.
> d
Both versions of cddlib are in the package (libcdd0d) so that should
work for polymake, right?
You are right, maybe cdd_both_reps.c could become a new library.
Best,
Tobias
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