On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:41 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>
... > > Regarding cvxopt, we should definitely upgrade the spkg. It's just a I agree. > standard Python library, by the way (not pexpect). However, I'm > suspect *nobody* uses it in Sage, given that we haven't upgraded it in I am working with a colleague who is very interested in creating Sage worksheets in OR for his classes. I think we have used cvxopt in the worksheets we've worked on but I'm not sure. In any case, I was not complaining because I thought the version we used was under a "better" license, so there was a good reason to stick with it. > I think well over a year and nobody has complained. Unless there are > some emails from people reading this who disagree, I think this > suggestion should be taken seriously. > But that's orthogonal to preparing a new spkg, which we should do in any case. > ... > > With respect to cvxopt, which the rest of Sage doesn't currently use, > upgrading to a new GPLv3 version doesn't impact either 1 or 2 above, > since a GPLv2-only version of Sage could simply not include cvxopt. > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
