Changes for pari 2.5.0

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Does the new version of pari use a native API for rendering plots now, or wound -x11 just result in loss of that functionality?  If the latter, that should be mentioned in the x11 variant description.

On Jun 28, 2011, at 07:51, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> PARI 2.5.0 is out and I plan to do the following changes in the
> Portfile:
> 
> 1. Remove the gmp variant: PARI will always use GMP (and depend on
>   it), as advised by the PARI developers (I don't see any reason not
>   to use GMP: it is much better than PARI's native implementation,
>   and probably much more tested).
> 
> 2. Add a x11 variant. Currently PARI always depends on X11; this
>   will no longer be the case (to solve bug 22353[*]). Since X11
>   is not the native Mac OS X GUI and plotting functions are just
>   a small part of PARI, I think that x11 should not be a default
>   variant.
> 
> [*] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22353
> 
> Any comment?
> 
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