Re: Ada binding to GMP and MPFR

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Vincent Diemunsch wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Hello everybody,
>
> As the libraries GMP (http://gmplib.org/) and MPFR (http://www.mpfr.org/
> ) becomes part of the GNAT
> free compiler (since they are part of the new GCC) and since these
> libraries have excellent performances,
> I thought it could be interesting to create an Ada binding for them.
[...]
> Now I wonder if someone could be interested in hosting the sources on
> an Internet page, so that anybody could
> download them and test them and eventually make improvements...
>
> The Binding is as follows :
[...]
> Therfore, I require your help :
> - Where may i found a place to put the files (or a SVN repository ;-)
> - Would you be interested in giving comments on implementation
> especially for MPFR_Types ?
[...]
> -- Copyright (c) 2009 Vincent DIEMUNSCH.
> -- GNU General Public License.
[...]

I can offer hosting on the Ada-France monotone server[1,2] but I think
it would be more productive if you would assign your copyright to the
FSF[3] and submit your binding for inclusion in GCC. That way, your
bindings would become part of GCC along with the libraries themselves
and would be packaged along with GCC into most distributions. This
requires that you use the same license, i.e. GPL version 3 or later
with an additional clause permitting use in proprietary programs.

[1] http://www.ada-france.org/article130.html (French version)
[2] http://www.ada-france.org/article131.html (English version)
[3] http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html

--
Ludovic Brenta.