Ilya Zakharevich on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:12:22 +0100


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Re: PARI stable release 2.3.5 (for real now)


On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >   *) startup copyright notice mentions 2006;

> 2.3.5 is a bug fix update, so we do not update the startup copyright notice.

Why?  What do you think is a function of this notice?  (I would think:
so that people know how old it is...)  Do you know ANY OTHER project
using the same semantic of copyright date?

Moreover, according to ./CHANGES, the last non-bug-fix is of 2008, not 2006...

> >   *) intnum() is still borken (same as in 3.0):
> > 
> >     ? intnum(Z=[0,-1/2],[[1],-3/2],1/sqrt(Z)*(1+Z)^(-3/2))
> >     %1 = 7.150393303262919781690330041 + 1018.215229301285883563073358 I
> > 
> >      (I presume this is integral from 0 to infinity...)
> 
> The development version has the same behaviour. Please report this issue.

I thought I just did...

Puzzled,
Ilya