OK, so that makes two of us so far. Hans, are you also in? I think we might also get support from the PHCpack creator. Perhaps a good place to start would be to contact the NLsolve developers (https://github.com/EconForge/NLsolve.jl), because they mention Homotopy Methods on their TODO list, what do you guys reckon?
On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 4:45:06 PM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote: > > 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. >>>> >>>
