On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everybody !!!
>
> I just wanted to report here that I had received several mails from
> Sage users about the class MixedIntegerLinearProgram :
>
> They are using an old version of Sage ( probably the latest stable
> version ), and downloading the packages using install_package('glpk').
> The problem is that these packages are made to work with the latest
> version of Sage ( at the moment, the 4.3.rc0 or a bit earlier ). An
> old version of Sage + the latest package is enough to make this class
> useless.
>
> Well, this should not be a problem anymore for
> MixedIntegerLinearProgram as it the new updates are
> backward-compatible, but... Well :
>
> 1 - It may not always be this way
> 2 - This may not *only* happen for this class
>
> Besides, the problem comes from the fact that some Sage code is
> included in the packages themselves, for the good reason that after
> asking this question to a lot of people, I thougth this was the best
> way to do it ( some Cython code needs the libraries to be installed to
> be compiled, and I found no way around it ). If you think there is a
> different way, please tell me :-)
>
> Thank you !!

Well for starters we *really* need to release sage-4.3.

William

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