On Monday, June 21, 2010, Robert Miller <r...@rlmiller.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Almost a year ago there was a brief discussion about this topic: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/fed15c54478e8d5 > > GLPK is a GPLv3 program from the FSF for linear programming: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/ > > Many of the awesome graph theory functions (such as for Hamiltonian > graphs) depend on some LP program being installed, and I think it > would be great if sage-standard could, e.g. solve the is_hamiltonian > question. Here are a few William Stein quotes from the last > discussion: > >> NOTE: GLPK is GPLv3. Since we need to retain the ability to release GPLv2 >> versions of Sage for now, this is another very good reason to make it >> optional for a while (so it is easy to swap out). > ... >> I personally think GLPK will end up being standard in Sage before >> long, so I think your approach right now is pretty good. It's just >> that it has to be optional for a bit (a month or so), since that's >> what we do. > > I recently emailed him about the GPLv3 issue, asking "is GPLv3 a > deal-breaker?" and he replied "No, it is not a dealbreaker." > > As more and more functions requiring LP get merged into Sage, I think > the time has come to reconsider this.
This is an official call for a vote: [ ] yes, include glpk [ ] no, don't because.... ___________________ > > -- > Robert L. Miller > http://www.rlmiller.org/ > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
