extend eco_prime to F_q?

[benediamond]

Thanks for your great work. I am very interested in extending many of the functions in eco_prime.h to arbitrary finite fields F_q. Most importantly, I'd like to extend compute_divisor_of_division_polynomial and its auxiliary functions (coefficient_comparison, compute_coefficients_of_weierstrass_p, etc.) to the prime-power case. Would there be any interest in this project on your part? I would be willing to contribute significantly, and have already made some progress. Thank you.

[mkoeppe]

See issue #6 - there are no active developers.

[benediamond]

I have gone ahead and done this: see benediamond::f_q_support.

[benediamond]

I've rebased my work to ensure clean diffs; you can now see it at my master branch. You can test it using examples/ec_order/eco_appl.

I don't suppose you have any interest in merging this in?

There may be a few bug fixes which are separate from the F_q business; I will go ahead and tag you in them.

[mkoeppe]

Thanks for doing that; this makes it easier to share bugfixes.

I don't plan to merge new features in my branch. If you have bug fixes that you'd like me to merge, it's probably best if you prepare pull requests for those; but no pressure! (I will probably not have the time to cherry-pick from the tagged code.)