[Cbc] Threadsafe usage of Cbc

[Ted Ralphs]

Sorry for the delay in making and announcing a new release. There is a
version 2.8.9 now, which contains this fix.

Cheers,

Ted


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:08 PM, John Forrest
<john.forrest at fastercoin.com>wrote:

> Cornelius,
>
> It would be more work to enable CBC_THREAD_SAFE by default as the
> standalone solver normally can read commands from stdin and environment
> variables.  CBC_THREAD_SAFE switches that ability off.  To make Cbc
> threadsafe out of box AND still allow parsing commands would be boring work
> - maybe a week.
>
> I never plan - especially releases and I never fiddle too much with
> configuration.  So until next release you could just use svn and then no
> patches are needed - just svn checkout ...../2.8 and add
>
> -DCBC_THREAD_SAFE -DCBC_NO_INTERRUPT
>
> to configure.
>
> John
>
>  Great,
>> that exactly what I needed!
>> My preliminary tests show that cbc works as intended :-)
>> When do you plan to make a new 2.8 release?
>> And could you either include a configure option for thread safety, or,
>> even better, just enable CBC_THREAD_SAFE by default?
>> Or do you need more testing for that?
>> Ideally, we'd like to use our framework without any patches, and I think
>> that would be the easiest if cbc was threadsafe out of the box.
>>
>>
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