Hi,

I have some questions :
- why was the golden section reimplemented ? OpenOpt has a generic framework that provides a golden section line search for... several months
- was the setupy.py problems solved ? that is, is the sys.path still changed when importing the scikit ?

Matthieu

2008/3/15, dmitrey <dmitrey.kroshko@scipy.org>:
Greetings,
We're pleased to announce:
OpenOpt 0.17 (release), free (license: BSD) optimization framework for
Python language programmers,  is available for download.

Changes since previous release 0.15 (December 15):

    * new classes: GLP (global problem), MMP (mini-max problem)
    * several new solvers written: goldenSection, nsmm
    * some more solvers connected: scipy_slsqp, bvls, galileo
    * possibility to change default solver parameters
    * user-defined callback functions
    * changes in auto derivatives check
    * "noise" parameter for noisy functions
    * some changes to NLP/NSP solver ralg
    * some changes in graphical output, initial estimations xlim, ylim
    * scaling
    * some bugfixes

Newsline:
http://openopt.blogspot.com/

Homepage:
http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OpenOpt
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