[flint2] feature request - linking with ntl

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2019-Feb-12 20:47:15 +0000, Dima Pasechnik <dimpase+freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>Flint2 can be linked with ntl, providing more capabilities.

Apart from being a prerequisite for sagemath, what additional capabilities
does flint2 gain from being linked with ntl?

>Is this a reasonable request to ask for flint2 to be linked with ntl
>and available in such a configuration by default?

IMO, ntl should be an optional dependency.  Whether it should default to
being "on" depends on the benefits gained from including it.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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