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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting rid of libgmp 
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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> libmp is dead. libcrypto is the interface of choice to use these days,
> or libgmp.  Nothing in our tree uses libgmp.

libmp certainly isn't a good interface, and nobody should be using it
for new projects, but since it's so trivial to support in terms of
other libraries I think we should keep it.  Of course, libgmp is an
infected beast, and it should die :-).

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