Ticket #6663 (closed enhancement: fixed)
[with spkg, positive review] add new 4ti2 experimental package
| Reported by: | mhampton | Owned by: | mabshoff |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-4.1.2 |
| Component: | packages: experimental | Keywords: | 4ti2, glpk, sandpile |
| Cc: | Work issues: | ||
| Report Upstream: | Reviewers: | David Joyner, Alex Ghitza, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune, Mike Hansen, David Perkinson | |
| Authors: | Marshall Hampton | Merged in: | Sage 4.1.2.alpha2 |
| Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description
The 4ti2 and glpk packages in experimental are very out of date. Since there seems to be some growing interest in having them available in sage they should be updated. If they can be made to work on more platforms they should be moved to optional.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by mhampton
- Summary changed from add new 4ti2 and glpk experimental packages to [with spkg, needs review] add new 4ti2 and glpk experimental packages
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by mhampton
- Summary changed from [with spkg, needs review] add new 4ti2 and glpk experimental packages to [with spkg, needs review] add new 4ti2 experimental package
I was unaware of the glpk package at: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6602
which has a more recent version of glpk. That spkg should be used instead of mine.
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by wdj
This 4ti2 spkg installed fine with N Cohen's glpk ( http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6602) on an amd64 ubuntu 9.04 machine.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by wdj
This installed fine and passed sage -testall (except for the known failures) on an intel macbook with 4.1.1.a0 running OS 10.4.11.
This gets a positive review from me. Are there more tests which should be run before "needs review" gets changed to "positive review"?
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by AlexGhitza
- Owner changed from tbd to mabshoff
- Component changed from algebra to packages
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by AlexGhitza
- Summary changed from [with spkg, needs review] add new 4ti2 experimental package to [with spkg, positive review] add new 4ti2 experimental package
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by mvngu
I have downloaded the spkg to my home directory:
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/patch/4ti2.p0.spkg
Is there any special reason why the package is not under revision control?
[mvngu@mod mvngu]$ tar -jxf 4ti2.p0.spkg [mvngu@mod mvngu]$ cd 4ti2.p0/ [mvngu@mod 4ti2.p0]$ hg st abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by mvngu
- Status changed from new to closed
- Reviewers changed from broune, mhansen, dperkinson to David Joyner, Alex Ghitza, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune, Mike Hansen, David Perkinson
- Resolution set to fixed
- Merged in set to Sage 4.1.2.alpha2
- Authors set to Marshall Hampton
Merged in the experimental packages repository at
http://www.sagemath.org/packages/experimental/
The updated spkg is available at

My current package attempts are at:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/4ti2.p0.spkg http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/glpk.p0.spkg
-Marshall