RE: third release candidate for 2.7.0

[jacques G <jacquesg00@hotmail.com>]

1. Windows binary installer for rc3: 
                   works fine on Vista and on 8.1.
Uninstall leaves a folder behind while protecting the gprc script.

2. A miracle happened!
The cursor which is lost while line editing on Vista reappears on 
Windows 8.1! I credit Microsoft for a bug fix from Vista to 8.1.

3. One problem worth mentionning is that CTRL-C hit at the prompt
beeps with readline=1 and terminates the session with readline=0, 
which differs from Pari 2.4 behaviour:
         GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.4.1 (alpha)
         #   ***   user interrupt after 46 ms.
         GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.7.0 (released)
         # Goodbye!
But CTRL-C does interrupt a long computation, as it should.
This session-ending cotrol character could be documented.

4. But there were absolutely no problems with old 2.4.1 scripts
using "local()" etc... Everything seems to work as is, and
the floating-point computations speed has been increased,
for example: 29 sec --> 22 sec; 25 sec --> 21 sec.

5. Will there be a 64-bit Windows version someday ?


Jacques G\'elinas






> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:43:10 +0100
> From: Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr
> To: pari-dev@pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr
> Subject: Re: third release candidate for 2.7.0
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
>> * Karim Belabas [2014-03-17 22:14]:
>>> Thanks to all who submitted bug reports or test results! I prepared a
>>> second release candidate
>> 
>> Thanks again to all testers ! Since there were still a few glitches,
>> I prepared another (hopefully final) release candidate:
>> 
>> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/pub/pari/snapshots/pari-2.7.0-rc3.tar.gz
> 
> I have built the Windows binary installer for rc3:
> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/windows/snapshots/Pari-2-7-0-rc3.exe>
> 
> Please test!
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>