Re: linear programming

[Jeff Abrahamson]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:22:14AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>   [47 lines, 211 words, 1437 characters]  Top characters: -teoanih
> 
> On  6-Mar-2005, Jeff Abrahamson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | It looks like octave uses NPSOL to do linear programming, which in
> | turn means that it can't be distributed with that functionality
> | because of the license conflict.
> | 
> |   http://www.cheric.org/education/eduaids/octave/octman/octave_75.html#SEC86
> 
> Why have you chosen this site to look at the Octave manual?  The
> Octave web pages are at www.octave.org.  Random pages on the net have
> a tendency to be out of date...

Google.  The octave docs leave the LP stuff blank, not even a comment.

    http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_25.html#SEC166


> | Am I mistaken?
> 
> Yes.  :-)

I'm glad.

(Off-list I have begun talking with folks about helping code the LP
stuff.)

-- 
 Jeff

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