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Deprecate libnum in favor of rust-lang/num #17309

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@aturon aturon commented Sep 16, 2014

This is part of the migration of crates into the Cargo ecosystem. There
is now an external repository https://github.com/rust-lang/num for bignums.

The single use of libnum elsewhere in the repository is for a shootout
benchmark. This commit does not attempt to remove that usage for now.

Due to deprecation, this is a:

[breaking-change]

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aturon commented Sep 16, 2014

Note: I wasn't sure what, if anything, to do with shootout-pidigits.rs in this PR. It doesn't seem like it should block us moving libnum out of the repo.

@brson thoughts?

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I would expect shootout-pidigits to move to src/test in the rust-lang/num repo as it's basically a benchmark of that implementation.

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aturon commented Sep 16, 2014

OK, I can do that. I just wasn't sure what the rules around shootout benchmarks were.

This is part of the migration of crates into the Cargo ecosystem. There
is now an external repository https://github.com/rust-lang/num for bignums.

The single use of libnum elsewhere in the repository is for a shootout
benchmark, which is being moved into the external crate.

Due to deprecation, this is a:

[breaking-change]
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aturon commented Sep 16, 2014

FYI: added the benchmark to benches in rust-lang/num (and added #[bench] infrastructure).

I've updated this PR accordingly.

alexcrichton added a commit to alexcrichton/rust that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2014
@bors bors merged commit 2ff07af into rust-lang:master Sep 17, 2014
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