[Coin-standards] Re: SMPS reader

[Gus Gassmann]

Hi guys,

I have kept up my reading of your submissions, but I was a bit 
susrprised at the heavy traffic, hence have not been able to keep 
up with the writing.

> John Forrest has just contributed an open source MPS file reader to
> the OSI package on COIN.  I would like to do the same for a Stochastic
> MPS file reader. (Of course, there is a working SMPS reader in OSLSE. 
> But this connects to the structures of the OSLSE package, which are
> byzantine, to say the least.)
> 
> I think you should be interested in this, because if your modeling
> standard supports stochastic programming it certainly should be able
> to implement SMPS.  It would be a good test case for your proposals.
> 
> Now, to be truly open source there has to be a community.  So, are you
> (or anyone out there) interested in developing an open source SMPS
> file reader? If so, write me a note and lets get started.

Yes, chalk up one keen expression of interest from me. Of course 
MSLiP has its own reader, in fact implementing many if not all of 
the features of the extended SMPS, but as Alan's it connects to 
the internal structures of MSLiP, which are equally hoary and 
patched up.



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