Bug#511899: ITP: coinor-csdp -- A software package for semidefinite programming

2009-02-23 Thread whoami314

Quoting Soeren Sonnenburg :
>
> Sure, but you should carefully check whether licenses (coinor uses CLP)
> are compatible and maybe askt on the coinor mailinglist if they can give
> an exception in case there is a problem...
>
> Soeren
>

Well, I'm clearly no license-expert, so feel free to prove me
wrong, but I don't think we have a license issue here: currently
coq and csdp form two separate and autonomous processes. Simply,
coq may submit a problem to csdp (by mean of a pipe or whatever)
and digest the output of csdp about this particular problem. In
addition, coq is clearly usable even without csdp being installed
on the system: in this case, the proof method that uses cdsp as
oracle will not be available, but coq provides many other proof
methods (they may be slower and/or more painful, but they work).

Best,

Pierre



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Bug#511899: ITP: coinor-csdp -- A software package for semidefinite programming

2009-02-20 Thread whoami314

Hi

This ITP is a nice idea. In my research group, we're now using csdp
as an external oracle when solving inequalities in the Coq proof assistant
(see [1], or more specifically [2] for the use of csdp in Coq). This
coinor-cdsp package could simplify things quite a bit for us, by becoming
a "recommends" or "suggests" or whatever for package coq. Anyway, if you need
early testers, or even help during the creation of this package, let me know...

Best regards,

Pierre Letouzey (Coq development team)
letouzey AT pps.jussieu.fr

[1]: http://packages.debian.org/coq
[2]: http://www.irisa.fr/lande/fbesson/Fast_Reflexive_Arithmetics_Tactics.pdf




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