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This is an update to my question Rigorous numerical integrationRigorous numerical integration from three years ago.

Is there now a package for rigorous numerical integration that uses interval arithmetic and has access to a well-developed library of special functions?

By "well-developed", I mean something that, at the very least, includes the error function $\text{erf}$, the incomplete gamma function $\Gamma(s,x)$ and the like. In other words, I would like to integrate expressions involving these functions. VNODE-LP doesn't seem to satisfy this requirement, as it relies on older interval-arithmetic libraries lacking such basic special functions. (Besides, perhaps it is just me, but VNODE-LP actually seems harder to install than three years ago; I am not sure it is being adequately maintained.)

PS. An ideal library would have both arbitrary-precision and double-precision modes, the latter one fast. That isn't really an issue for what I am doing now, but it sounds like a basic desideratum, just as, say, an intuitive interface written in C++ (as opposed to plain C) would be.

This is an update to my question Rigorous numerical integration from three years ago.

Is there now a package for rigorous numerical integration that uses interval arithmetic and has access to a well-developed library of special functions?

By "well-developed", I mean something that, at the very least, includes the error function $\text{erf}$, the incomplete gamma function $\Gamma(s,x)$ and the like. In other words, I would like to integrate expressions involving these functions. VNODE-LP doesn't seem to satisfy this requirement, as it relies on older interval-arithmetic libraries lacking such basic special functions. (Besides, perhaps it is just me, but VNODE-LP actually seems harder to install than three years ago; I am not sure it is being adequately maintained.)

PS. An ideal library would have both arbitrary-precision and double-precision modes, the latter one fast. That isn't really an issue for what I am doing now, but it sounds like a basic desideratum, just as, say, an intuitive interface written in C++ (as opposed to plain C) would be.

This is an update to my question Rigorous numerical integration from three years ago.

Is there now a package for rigorous numerical integration that uses interval arithmetic and has access to a well-developed library of special functions?

By "well-developed", I mean something that, at the very least, includes the error function $\text{erf}$, the incomplete gamma function $\Gamma(s,x)$ and the like. In other words, I would like to integrate expressions involving these functions. VNODE-LP doesn't seem to satisfy this requirement, as it relies on older interval-arithmetic libraries lacking such basic special functions. (Besides, perhaps it is just me, but VNODE-LP actually seems harder to install than three years ago; I am not sure it is being adequately maintained.)

PS. An ideal library would have both arbitrary-precision and double-precision modes, the latter one fast. That isn't really an issue for what I am doing now, but it sounds like a basic desideratum, just as, say, an intuitive interface written in C++ (as opposed to plain C) would be.

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Numerical integration using interval arithmetic, nowadays

This is an update to my question Rigorous numerical integration from three years ago.

Is there now a package for rigorous numerical integration that uses interval arithmetic and has access to a well-developed library of special functions?

By "well-developed", I mean something that, at the very least, includes the error function $\text{erf}$, the incomplete gamma function $\Gamma(s,x)$ and the like. In other words, I would like to integrate expressions involving these functions. VNODE-LP doesn't seem to satisfy this requirement, as it relies on older interval-arithmetic libraries lacking such basic special functions. (Besides, perhaps it is just me, but VNODE-LP actually seems harder to install than three years ago; I am not sure it is being adequately maintained.)

PS. An ideal library would have both arbitrary-precision and double-precision modes, the latter one fast. That isn't really an issue for what I am doing now, but it sounds like a basic desideratum, just as, say, an intuitive interface written in C++ (as opposed to plain C) would be.