Sounds interesting, I'd certainly play with it. This is probably the first piece of code I've seen in public that's written in Ada though - having never built an Ada library before, getting it set up to easily install through Julia's package manager sounds like it would be the hardest part.
On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 6:56:34 AM UTC-7, Andrei Berceanu wrote: > > It is basically a call for collaborators on such a package. I am willing > to contribute although I am quite new to Julia. > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:28:55 PM UTC+2, Hans W Borchers wrote: >> >> As I once thought about writing an R package rPHCpack, I would be *very* >> interested >> in having access to PHCpack in Julia. >> >> What I did not understand: (1) do you suggest someone else writes such a >> package, >> (2) is this a kind of poll for such a package, (3) are you going to code >> such a >> wrapper yourself, or (4) are you asking for help or support? >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 10:28:31 AM UTC+2, Andrei Berceanu wrote: >>> >>> I do now know how many of you are familiar with the PHCpack ( >>> http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~jan/phcpack_doc_html/index.html) code >>> for solving (very large) polynomial systems without the need for initial >>> guessing, by using homotopy continuation methods. They have a github >>> repository as well at >>> https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack >>> The purpose of this email is to propose implementing an interface to >>> PHCpack from julia as a separate package. >>> >>
