Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP.

[Paul Eggert]

"James Youngman" <address@hidden> writes:

> Although libgmp itself has no further dependencies other than the C
> library, this is still a large-ish extra dependency.   Should we also
> introduce a --without-gmp option to configure?

Yes, particularly if it's added to 'expr'.

> I also remember Jim mentioning something about supporting large
> numbers in expr.  That seems feasible, though based on the number of
> discussions over the last year or two I would suggest that perhaps
> using GMP in "seq" might also be a win; thoughts?

They'd both be wins, I'd say.

Also "test", right?  Though that's lower priority.