[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings

[Nicholas Bastin]

On 9/9/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable
> > source code for the Library
>
> But if it's like the regular GPL, you can just tell people
> where to get the source -- you don't have to physically
> provide it yourself.

You technically have to have a written agreement with the people who
provide the source that they will continue to do so.  This is why I
suggested that python.org could just host the source and provide that
agreement to other distributors of Python.  We could ask the GMP folks
for those assurances as well, but that point appears moot as there are
technical issues with using the library (which is what I was really
trying to get at in the first place).

I still think we should investigate other arbitrary precision math
libraries, or have someone commit to meeting certain performance goals
for PyLong.

--
Nick