On 2009-05-24, at 2:31 AM, Dmitrey Kroshko wrote:

hi all,

BOBYQA is state-of-the-art solver for NLP/NSP problems with box bounds lb <= x <= ub, when no user-supplied gradient/subgradient is available. License is BSD-like, language: fortran 77, author: Michael J.D. Powell.

I have filed a ticket for scipy.optimize http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/950 Has anyone willing to go for it?

Regards, D.

I would like to do this. I'll have some time in a couple days. John