Bug#480086: RFP: cddlib -- Library for finding vertices of convex polytopes
Package: wnpp
Priority: wishlist
* Package name: cddlib
* URL: http://www.ifor.math.ethz.ch/~fukuda/cdd_home/
* License: GPL
Programming Lang: C
* Description: Library for finding vertices of convex polytopes
The C-library cddlib is a C implementation of the Double Description
Method of Motzkin et al. for generating all vertices (i.e. extreme points)
and extreme rays of a general convex polyhedron in R^d given by a system
of linear inequalities:
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P = { x=(x1, ..., xd)^T : b - A x >= 0 }
.
where A is a given m x d real matrix, b is a given m-vector
and 0 is the m-vector of all zeros.
.
The program can be used for the reverse operation (i.e. convex hull
computation). This means that one can move back and forth between
an inequality representation and a generator (i.e. vertex and ray)
representation of a polyhedron with cdd. Also, cdd can solve a linear
programming problem, i.e. a problem of maximizing and minimizing
a linear function over P.
I have a draft packaging available in the apt repository described at
<http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE> that I run for coordinating the
packaging of SAGE for Debian (#455292).
Since I don't have the time to maintain all 26 source packages I've
created as part of my effort to package SAGE's dependencies for Debian,
I'm looking for someone to adopt this package and maintain it in Debian.
This package contains a static library compiled with -fPIC. The Debian
Library Packaging Guide recommends against this; ideally, one would
coordinate with the upstream maintainers to add a shared library.
-Tim Abbott
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