Before I write up my proposal, I wish to solicit the community response regarding the integration of an linear programming (LP) solver into Boost. An LP solver is library designed to solve LP problems. An LP problem is any problem of the form
I really like this idea and would be willing to mentor such an effort. Please go ahead and submit your proposal as soon as the submission is open.
I also think this is a great summer project and would definitely encourage you to submit a proposal for this project. I would also strongly recommend that spend some time investigating other LP solver libraries and compare/contrast your approach to these as part of your proposal. This will help give you (and us) more perspective on design alternatives. Hartmut, I can't invite mentors for a couple of days. the GSoC folks have managed to disable that feature while they roll out a new version of their web app. Should be sometime toward the end of the week that I can start sending out invitations. Andrew