As long as there are no licensing issues, we *definitely* need something for semi-serious LP (and I don't even use it!). If this is the most obvious candidate for an official package, do it. It's not more than another 100 MB to the tarball, is it? ;)
- kcrisman On Jun 21, 2:20 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/fed15c... > > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://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
