adding new library deps to kcalc?

Evan Teran eteran at alum.rit.edu
Fri Oct 15 06:39:44 CEST 2010


Hi,

I recently saw a bug report for kcalc involving a lack of precision
with trig functions. The reason for this is that currently kcalc will
convert the GMP value to a long double, do the trig function using the
standard c lib, and then convert back.

So did a little looking around for a GMP like library that supports
trig functions and I found one MPFR (http://www.mpfr.org/). It seems
that it is modeled after GMP but has support for trig functions well.
So my question is what is the kde policy with regard to adding new
library dependencies?

Thanks,
Evan Teran


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