We're not turning it into a shared library at present, but we are already building librbio.a under deps/SuiteSparse-4.2.1/RBio/Lib
I bet with a few additional lines here https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/Makefile#L1239-L1247 you could leverage that to save some time? Pure-Julia versions are generally preferable, but until someone steps up to write replacements for CHOLMOD or UMFPACK in Julia, I don't think SuiteSparse is going anywhere. I believe the biggest problem with SuiteSparse is the license concern of having GPL dependencies, BSD or MIT style licenses are very much preferred around here. On Sunday, April 27, 2014 1:11:32 AM UTC-7, Dominique Orban wrote: > > Here's a reader for matrices and supplementary data written in the > Harwell-Boeing format: https://github.com/dpo/rb.jl > > The Harwell-Boeing format is the predecessor of the Rutherford-Boeing > format, which is the format used by the University of Florida Sparse Matrix > Collection. There's quite a bit of juggling to process the Fortran format > strings correctly. A Rutherford-Boeing reader is under way. > > Enjoy! >
