<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear CMPL users,<div class=""> <br class="">The CMPL team is pleased to announce the release of CMPL 2. <br class=""><br class="">CMPL has been (almost) completely redeveloped and comes with a lot of new functionalities. <br class=""><br class="">Examples are improved syntax, logical constraints, native support for SOS, the opportunity for users to write their own functions in CMPL and much more. Furthermore, CMPL has been extended with a new interactive interface to Excel. A user can read sets and parameters into the cmpl model and write results directly into an open excel file. This feature is availbale on Windows and macOS. <br class=""><br class="">In addition, pyCmpl, jCmpl and CmplServer have been revised and extended. For example, pyCmpl is now fully ported to Python 3. Python2 is no longer supported. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Binaries, Examples and Manual<br class=""></b><br class="">The executable files for Windows, macOs and Linux, examples and the manual can be found under the following link: <a href="http://coliop.org" class="">http://coliop.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Installation</b><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Linux and Windows</i><br class=""><br class="">An installation is not required after unpacking the ZIP or tar.gz file. The CMPL package works out of the box in any folder.<br class=""><br class=""><i class="">macOS</i><br class=""><br class="">The CMPL package works out of the box in any folder. <b class="">After unpacking the ZIP file, the following steps must be carried out once at the first start:</b><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• While holding down the "ctrl" key, click on the icon of the Coliop app and select "Open" from the context menu.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• In the appearing dialogue, click on "Open".<br class=""></div>The app is saved as an exception to your security settings so that you can open it in the future by double-clicking on it like a registered app. To start CmplShell, the link cmplShell in CMPLHOME have to be double-clicked. In addition a user can do so in Coliop (Menu Actions -> Open CmplShell). To start cmpl on the command line please use it within CmplShell. If cmpl.opt or cmplServer.opt need to be edited, just open them via the links in the CMPLHOME/opt subfolder.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Source code</b><br class=""><br class="">The source code is available on Github:<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• [Cmpl official realeases] (https://github.com/coin-or/Cmpl)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• [Cmpl working git] (https://github.com/MikeSteglich/Cmpl2)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• [Coliop] (https://github.com/MikeSteglich/Coliop)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• [pyCmpl] (https://github.com/MikeSteglich/pyCmpl3)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• [jCmpl] (https://github.com/MikeSteglich/jCmpl)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">Support</b><br class=""><br class="">Please use the GitHub functionalities to post issues and bugs at https://github.com/coin-or/Cmpl/issues or for general discussions at https://github.com/coin-or/Cmpl/discussions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike</div></body></html>