Re: Detecting whether PARI has been initialized

[John Cremona <john.cremona@gmail.com>]

I am unsubscribing from pari-dev, since it has deteriorated to the
point of being rude and appears to have no interest at all in helping
and collaborating with others.

John

On 17 September 2014 15:19, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:52:14PM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
>> Bill, that is *not* helpful.  The solution we propose is to have a
>> global variable, set to 0 on startup (automatically), set to 1 in
>> pari_init() and to 0 in pari_close().
>
> My point is that your code did not actually work, so we did not break
> anything. If you like to do a feature request, this is a different issue.
>
>> If eclib (which includes mwrank) is broken by a change in pthe pari
>> library, I will have to eliminate the dependency (which I only use for
>> integer factorization anyway at present) and use FLINT instead.
>
> There are much better libraries for integer factorization than PARI.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>