I would certainly be interested to apply it to systems of polynomials in design and engineering, but I will not be in a position to support you in developing such a package.
Please notice that PHCpack is distributed under GPL license, so your first step should be to contact the author and ask for his approval to distribute it under a lesser license such as MIT. Then think about it: what are you going to do with the ADA sources? May I propose to you to look at HOMPACK <http://www.netlib.org/hompack/> or HOMPACK90. HOMPACK is a suite of FORTRAN 77 subroutines for solving nonlinear systems of equations by homotopy methods (trying to find all the roots). This is available in Netlib, and since it is written in Fortran, it should be relatively easily interfaceable with Julia -- though it might be under AMS license which is even stricter than GPL. On Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:01:12 PM UTC+2, Andrei Berceanu wrote: > > 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? >
