Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Owner: Doug Torrance <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Severity: wishlist
* Package name : zimpl Version : 3.7.0 Upstream Contact: Thorsten Koch <[email protected]> * URL : https://zimpl.zib.de/ * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : mathematical modeling language for optimization problems Zimpl allows the specification of certain optimization problems - linear programs (LPs) and mixed integer programs (MIPs) - in a high-level description language. These descriptions can be converted into the LP or MPS file formats which are understood by LP and MIP solvers. This package was formerly in Debian, but was removed (#977951) due to being part of a larger software package with a non-free license. Presumably this larger package was SCIP (https://www.scipopt.org/) and the non-free license was the ZIB Academic License. However, although there no longer appear to be ZIMPL tarballs available for download, it is still maintained in its own git repository (https://github.com/scipopt/zimpl). Furthermore, SCIP has since moved to a free license (Apache 2.0). I am currently in the process of packaging SCIP (#1039923), and ZIMPL is an optional component that would be nice to have. In particular, the MonomialIntegerPrograms package in Macaulay2 makes calls to SCIP using the ZIMPL language. I plan to maintain this package under the umbrella of the Debian Math Team.
