is this thread still alive? a phc package would be good...
On Monday, June 23, 2014 5:26:34 AM UTC-7, Andrei Berceanu wrote: > > By the way I recently stumbled upon NLSolve.jl, and asked them if they > would be interested in PHCpack > https://github.com/EconForge/NLsolve.jl/issues/12 > > Still no reply on their part yet though. > > On Monday, June 23, 2014 1:06:03 PM UTC+2, Andrei Berceanu wrote: >> >> Free binary versions for Mac and Windows of the gnu-ada compiler are >> available at http://libre.adacore.com/ and are very easy to install. >> As for HOMPACK, the main difference is that PHCpack is specifically >> targeted for polynomial systems. HOMPACK provides continuation methods for >> general nonlinear systems and has extra drivers for polynomial systems. >> Another main difference is that PHCpack offers polyhedral homotopies, which >> are absent from HOMPACK. So I guess it depends on what we want really, >> personally I am interested in polynomial systems. Please let me know if you >> succeed in installing the ada compiler for Mac from the above link. >> >> >> On Friday, June 20, 2014 11:36:01 PM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote: >>> >>> That sounds like the best plan for the PHCpack code. Have you looked at >>> or are you familiar with whether HOMPACK as Hans mentioned would be able to >>> provide similar functionality? I say that just because more of us are used >>> to building Fortran code than Ada. Ada should be reasonable to work with on >>> Linux, and maybe even in MinGW or Cygwin, but it doesn't look like it's set >>> up in Homebrew for Mac users. If you know of a standard way to install GNAT >>> and can get the library building on at least your platform of choice, go >>> for it. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, June 20, 2014 2:14:18 PM UTC-7, Andrei Berceanu wrote: >>>> >>>> I have contacted the author ( >>>> https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack/issues/3) and it seems >>>> redistribution under a different license is not really an option. >>>> However, if what Milan says is correct, then we should be able to >>>> include it 'as-is'. >>>> Now for the interface, I was thinking that, since there already exists >>>> a comprehensive C API to the Ada code, we could call that from Julia, what >>>> do you guys reckon? >>>> >>>> On Friday, June 6, 2014 2:18:33 PM UTC+2, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Le vendredi 06 juin 2014 à 03:43 -0700, Hans W Borchers a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> Please notice that PHCpack is distributed under GPL license, so your >>>>> first >>>>> >>>>> step should be to contact the author and ask for his approval to >>>>> distribute >>>>> >>>>> it under a lesser license such as MIT. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Though since it's a package rather than code to be included in Julia >>>>> Base, GPL is fine too. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>
