[isabelle-dev] Sum of Squares server down?

[Tobias Nipkow]

On 22/09/2014 16:52, Makarius wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> 
>> I have installed a copy of the software locally. Would be worth making this a
>> component?
> 
> This canonical question has come up each time, after someone spent significant
> time with the NEOS/CSDP server. I have started to experiment myself with the
> binary downloads from https://projects.coin-or.org/Csdp
> 
> So far it works fine, but I need to do more multi-platform tests.
> 
> Despite the warnings on the download site about unoptimized executables, they
> are *much* faster than the server. So what is the purpose of the server anyway?

To avoid having to the install binaries by hand.

Tobias

> It did not only waste our time in the maintenance, but also time of potential
> users.
> 
> So the NEOS/CSDP server setup looks like a canonical candidate for deletion. 
> That would also allow to remove Python from the Windows/Cygwin app bundle and
> save many MBs of disk space.
> 
> 
>     Makarius
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