Make Parma Polyhedra Library a standard library

[vbraun]

The Parma Polyhedra Library (ppl) is for many workloads the fastest library for polyhedral computations. It is also high-quality code, for example GCC uses it (optionally) to optimize loops.

• ppl has already been widely tested on a multitude of platforms.
• Native C++ with a pure C interface.
• Contains a huge testsuite _and_ passes its own testsuite (in contrast to some other polydedral library that shall remain unnamed)

Official webpage: http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/

My plan is to

1. Create a PPL spkg.
2. Write a Cython interface.
3. Base sage.geometry.cone.Cone on PPL instead of Polyhedron/cddlib
4. Split sage.geometry.polyhedra.Polyhedron into an abstract base class and derived classes that use different polyhedral computation libraries.

Current status:

1. My cython wrapper for PPL is attached. It has full doctest coverage and any invalid input is caught and raises ValueError.
2. Is split off into trac #10140.

For convenience I mirrored the reference manual page here: http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/html/en/reference/sage/libs/ppl.html

To apply this ticket:

• download the new spkg http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ppl-0.11.2.spkg
• copy the spkg to $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard
• apply attachment: trac_10039_parma_polyhedra_library.patch to the Sage library
• apply attachment: trac_10039_ppl_fix_extremize.patch to the Sage library
• apply attachment: 10039_manifest.patch to the Sage library
• apply attachment: trac_10039_root_repo.patch the sage root repository
• apply attachment: trac_10039_SAGE_LOCAL_bin_repo.patch to the $SAGE_LOCAL/bin repository

CC: @novoselt @jdemeyer @kiwifb

Component: geometry

Keywords: ppl spkg

Author: Volker Braun

Reviewer: Marshall Hampton, Jeroen Demeyer

Merged: sage-4.7.alpha4

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/10039

[vbraun]

comment:85

Oops, sorry. New trac_10039_ppl_fix_extremize.patch now has a commit message, no other changes. Setting this back to positive review as only metadata changed.

[jdemeyer]

Merged: sage-4.7.alpha4

[jdemeyer]

Description changed:

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 4. Split `sage.geometry.polyhedra.Polyhedron` into an abstract base class and derived classes that use different polyhedral computation libraries.

 Current status:
-1. Spkg can be found here: http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/spkg/ppl-0.11.2.spkg
-2. My cython wrapper for PPL is attached. It has full doctest coverage and any invalid input is caught and raises `ValueError`.
-3. Is split off into trac #10140.
+1. My cython wrapper for PPL is attached. It has full doctest coverage and any invalid input is caught and raises `ValueError`.
+2. Is split off into trac #10140.

 For convenience I mirrored the reference manual page here: http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/html/en/reference/sage/libs/ppl.html

-To apply this ticket
-* copy the ppl spkg to `$SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard`
+To apply this ticket:
+* download the new spkg [http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ppl-0.11.2.spkg](http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ppl-0.11.2.spkg)
+* copy the spkg to `$SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard`
 * apply [attachment: trac_10039_parma_polyhedra_library.patch](https://github.com/sagemath/sage-prod/files/10651046/trac_10039_parma_polyhedra_library.patch.gz) to the Sage library
 * apply [attachment: trac_10039_ppl_fix_extremize.patch](https://github.com/sagemath/sage-prod/files/10651051/trac_10039_ppl_fix_extremize.patch.gz) to the Sage library
 * apply [attachment: 10039_manifest.patch](https://github.com/sagemath/sage-prod/files/10651049/10039_manifest.patch.gz) to the Sage library

[jdemeyer]

comment:87

www.stp.dias.ie seems to be down, so I'm mirroring the spkg myself.