[with spkg, positive review] GLPK for Sage

[ncohen]

GLPK ( ​http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/ ) is a Linear Program solver from GNU. It can also solve Mixed Integer Programs, and is needed for : ​http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6502

More informations on : ​http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/9da47e06bcdfc49f

SPKG available there : ​http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nathann.Cohen/glpk-4.38.spkg

[wdj]

I'm not sure what needs to be checked here. It installs fine on an amd64 ubuntu 9.04 machine and passes sage -testall.

Are there any tests I should run? I saw nothing on the url given in the ticket but I am not an OR person.

Positive review from me as far as I can tell, as an optional package.

[ncohen]

I think that most of the tests of this spkg will be done in ​http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6502

I hope it will be possible to quickly include all of this into SAGE !! ( Oh, and this spkg is meant to be standard, not just optional !! )

[mvngu]

It's rather difficult to include this SPKG when there are (as yet) no functions in the Sage library to test its functionalities. Once #6502 gets positive review, this SPKG could then be merged in the Sage standard packages repository.

[mvngu]

We no longer use "SAGE". The days of that capitalization are over. Now use "Sage" instead.

[mhampton]

I object to including this as standard just because of consistency concerns - I think this needs a vote on sage-devel.

[wdj]

Note: I said "Positive review from me as far as I can tell, as an optional package. "

[mvngu]

The proposal here is to merge the SPKG in the optional packages repository.

[ncohen]

I forgot all about the voting process I immediately send a message on Sage-devel about it.

This package has to be included in the --standard-- package repository if we want Sage to have any native LP feature ( see #6502 ). Coin-or and Cplex are both GPL-uncompatible ;-)

[ncohen]

The vote is going on there : ​http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/fed15c54478e8d5

[wdj]

I could be wrong but I think trac is for optional packages. IIRC, once it is optional (ie, posted to ​http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/) then a public vote is carried out on sage-devel.

[ncohen]

I did not know that !!!

I'm pretty new aboard, and the only thing I wrote for Sage was an interface for Cliquer, which has seemingly found a shortcut through all these steps ;-)

I may be in a hurry, but it is just because :

• I am impatient to see this patch accepted
• I have already written several graph functions waiting to be included in the Graph class that I will not post until MIP is included into Sage

Sorry again ! I'll try to be a bit more patient ;-)

[mvngu]

Merged in optional packages repository. The new optional package can be found here:

​http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/glpk-4.38.spkg