yes, sure! By the way, GLPK has a CVXOPT interface, so this would also means that this interface needs to be somehow taken care of in a new release of CVXOPT package, that I hopefully will be able to deal with in July...
Dima On Jun 21, 8:02 pm, 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. > > -- > Robert L. Millerhttp://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
