[SciPy-user] General_purpose root-finding routines

[Brian Boonstra]

> I'm all for more solvers/optimizers -- especially a constrained solver
> for nonlinear optimization problems.  The best I know of is cfsqp (Andre
> Tits is the author I believe), but it isn't open source.  If we could
> get one of comparable quality in SciPy, that would be a *huge* addition.


I don't have a particular need for this, but I think that MINPACK is quite  
well regarded.


Brian