Hi John, On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:50 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can get it to work on the platforms I have available (Intel OS X > and linux), is that good enough to submit a new spkg? (What are the > standards for experimental packages, anyway?)
I made spkgs awhile back for 4ti2 and glpk in my home directory on sage.math. > The old package uses glpk, but I could only get it to work by > upgrading to the most recent version of glpk. glpk is another > experimental package; does anyone know if anything else uses it? If > not, we can just replace the old one with the new one without worrying > about anything else breaking. There is a GPLv3 licensing issue with newer versions of GLPK. > The file interfaces/four_ti_2.py is a real mess. Should this even be > present by default, or should it just be installed as part of the > package? It should be cleaned up. > I am nowhere close to being an expert in 4ti2. I want to use its > 'zsolve' command, and right now I don't care about much else. This > will be reflected in what I actually implement in four_ti_2.py. I > assume that this is okay, and other people can implement things when > they need them. Right? Yep, I think so. There was a request for a nice interface to 4ti2 in one of the talks at Sage Days 10 today. > Or maybe I should say, if I have to implement lots of the features of > 4ti2, this whole project probably won't happen, but if I only have to > implement a few, it might happen. Aside from zsolve, any ideas what my > top priorities should be? I use it for Markov bases of toric ideals. I'd be willing to put some time/effort into this. Sorry for being so brief, but we've got a lot to do here at SD10 :-) --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
