[Bug 227570] Review Request: calc - Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator

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Summary: Review Request: calc - Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227570





------- Additional Comments From mattdm at mattdm.org  2007-09-05 21:00 EST -------
I'm working on packages for calc-2.12.2. This upstream release removes the
questionable md5 code and, bonus, dynamically links libraries. Should be ready
real soon now. In the meantime, you can look at the packages in the link at
comment 13 -- if the release number starts with "0", there are known problems
(and probably unknown ones) that I'm still working on (but review comments are
still welcome).

Right now I have it with an option in the spec file which, if "1", converts from
LGPL to GPL and links with readline. This is intended to be temporary -- right
now, the code is such that there's not a good distinction between the
command-line utility and the library. In theory, all readline-dependent
functionality could be split out from the library and only the command-line calc
program linked against that; then we'd have LGPLv2 for the libs and GPL for the
actual program. But that's for the future.

Personally, I really value having real readline support (the built-in
alternative is nothing close) more than having the libraries LGPL, but upstream
really wants the basic libs to be LGPL, which is an understandable position. So
I'm taking suggestions for how to set the flag by default.

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