[Os-project-managers] OSrL problem

[Kipp Martin]

Hi Gus:
>
> But when we get stuff back from the solver and have to pass it back into
> an AML, we are stuck. *We* have to know what the AML calls the type; we
> cannot ask Ipopt to call it "r", because we have no way (and no reason)
> to tell Ipopt that the input file was generated by AMPL. Do you have any
> clever ideas about that?

Why not do what you suggest in the previous email and have a type in the 
<other> element.  Then each solver interface that writes to the <other> 
can write the type which comes from an enumeration. Then the AML 
interface reads the type and uses as appropriate for the AML.

Cheers



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