Re: Updating glpk binding to GLPK 4.15

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Feb-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| 
| And is anything known about binding to lp_solve?
| Octave 2.9.9 says "not implemented yet"

It has been in more or less the same state since July 1 1993 when I
added the LPsolve.{h,cc} files.  I guess no one ever cared enough in
the last 13-1/2 years to do the necessary work.  Maybe those files
should be removed?

| However, in their sourseforge download page there is already something
| related to Octave
| 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145213&package_id=159735

I was not aware of this.  I looked at the code and I don't think I
would accept it as part of Octave as it is, but maybe someone would
want to package it and/or put a pointer to it on the future package
distribution site.  Oh yeah, we need someone to work on that too, as
we discussed in this thread:

 http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2007-February/001798.html

| And: is it possible to avoid 2 (it seems to me) very unconvinient things (as
| far as I saw in Python wrapper):
| 1) replace maximizing (default) by minimizing
| 2) avoid default lb=[0 0 0 ... 0]?

Ask the person who wrote the interface.

jwe