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From: fbissey@××××××××××××.nz
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] How to use glpk-4.50
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:18:42
Message-Id: 20130625101641.ks4sw4g880cg08os@webmail.slingshot.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] How to use glpk-4.50 by "Sébastien Fabbro"
1 Quoting Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@g.o>:
2
3 > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> it is masked.
5 >>
6 >> ... and that is irrelavant from a dev perspective. People report bugs
7 >> and we have to come up with solutions. The mask just makes the problem
8 >> less urgent.
9 >>
10 >
11 > we do not have to come up with solutions for glpk api breaks. i could
12 > have simply not bump glpk in the tree and there will be no bugs.
13 > masking or subslot dependencies is what we can do without diving into
14 > upstream code. obviously patches are welcome.
15
16 Looking at 4ti2 in particular, that's a substantial amount of code. If you
17 fix it, that would pretty much get you ownership of it, but I see you already
18 have a fork on github with a few commits, Thomas.
19
20 So you are after glpk documentation on how to migrate? I haven't seen anything
21 useful on glpk's mailing list but it wouldn't hurt to ask there.
22
23 Francois

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Re: [gentoo-science] How to use glpk-4.50 Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>