By the way I recently stumbled upon NLSolve.jl, and asked them if they would be interested in PHCpack https://github.com/EconForge/NLsolve.jl/issues/12
Still no reply on their part yet though. On Monday, June 23, 2014 1:06:03 PM UTC+2, Andrei Berceanu wrote: > > Free binary versions for Mac and Windows of the gnu-ada compiler are > available at http://libre.adacore.com/ and are very easy to install. > As for HOMPACK, the main difference is that PHCpack is specifically > targeted for polynomial systems. HOMPACK provides continuation methods for > general nonlinear systems and has extra drivers for polynomial systems. > Another main difference is that PHCpack offers polyhedral homotopies, which > are absent from HOMPACK. So I guess it depends on what we want really, > personally I am interested in polynomial systems. Please let me know if you > succeed in installing the ada compiler for Mac from the above link. > > > On Friday, June 20, 2014 11:36:01 PM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> That sounds like the best plan for the PHCpack code. Have you looked at >> or are you familiar with whether HOMPACK as Hans mentioned would be able to >> provide similar functionality? I say that just because more of us are used >> to building Fortran code than Ada. Ada should be reasonable to work with on >> Linux, and maybe even in MinGW or Cygwin, but it doesn't look like it's set >> up in Homebrew for Mac users. If you know of a standard way to install GNAT >> and can get the library building on at least your platform of choice, go >> for it. >> >> >> On Friday, June 20, 2014 2:14:18 PM UTC-7, Andrei Berceanu wrote: >>> >>> I have contacted the author ( >>> https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack/issues/3) and it seems >>> redistribution under a different license is not really an option. >>> However, if what Milan says is correct, then we should be able to >>> include it 'as-is'. >>> Now for the interface, I was thinking that, since there already exists a >>> comprehensive C API to the Ada code, we could call that from Julia, what do >>> you guys reckon? >>> >>> On Friday, June 6, 2014 2:18:33 PM UTC+2, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: >>>> >>>> Le vendredi 06 juin 2014 à 03:43 -0700, Hans W Borchers a écrit : >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> Though since it's a package rather than code to be included in Julia >>>> Base, GPL is fine too. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>
