GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released

Posted Jul 23, 2012 15:56 UTC (Mon) by JohnLenz (guest, #42089)
In reply to: GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released by coriordan
Parent article: GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released

I was curious to see how old the projects were, and revision 1 of MPC was January 2003. PARI is a little older at September 1999 but it seems like those early versions of PARI had some wierd non-commercial license. Maybe MPC was started before PARI switched to the GPL? In any case, they are both old projects.

GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released

Posted Jul 23, 2012 19:27 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

PARI/GP first release was in 1986 (before version 1 of the GNU GPL).
The GIT repository start a bit before version 2.0.17 (1999/09/16).
The first release under the GNU GPL was 2.1.0 (2000/11/17).

To cut any speculation: the MPC developers were well-aware of PARI/GP when they decided to write MPC (and conversely, the PARI/GP developers were well-aware of MPC development).