[Pkg-julia-devel] double-conversion library

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> The double-conversion library has been orphaned [1].
> Any objections to me adopting it on behalf of pkg-julia?
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/815264

It turns out that julia no longer uses that library.

A quick inspection suggests that it was implemented natively:

# grep -r double-conversion base 
base/grisu/bignum.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license
base/grisu/bignums.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license
base/grisu/fastfixed.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license
base/grisu/fastprecision.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license
base/grisu/fastshortest.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license
base/grisu/float.jl:# https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion which has the following license

I have removed the build dependency and julia builds fine.

Regards,
Peter