Mac binary distribution packages

[staticfloat]

Back in the olden days (e.g. before the recent rewrite of BinDeps for Pkg2) I bundled Winston and dependencies with the OSX binaries. This was because we wanted to avoid forcing users to compile Cairo, etc. just to plot out some lines.

Taking a look at it now, it seems we've got much more bulletproof system integration, so do I still need to do this? Furthermore, are there other packages I should be bundling that I'm not?

[ViralBShah]

I think we should bundle common binary libs such as sundials, hdf5, glpk, clp, and nlopt. Let users pick up the corresponding julia packages through Pkg.

[mlubin]

It would be great to bundle glpk and clp, but glpk is currently blocked by #3342 (jump-dev/GLPK.jl#3), and clp has a GPL-incompatible license (EPL), so someone with more experience than me should decide if it's ok to distribute together with the other GPL libraries used by Julia.

[ViralBShah]

Debian distributes CLP. I think we should be fine.

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=clp

[mlubin]

I have to some patches to CLP/CoinMP which might be slightly objectionable to put in homebrew-science. Would the bundling system work if I provided a custom .rb file?

[staticfloat]

Yes, we could make it work.
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I have to some patches to CLP/CoinMP which might be slightly objectionable
to put in homebrew-science. Would the bundling system work if I provided a
custom .rb file?

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[mlubin]

I've put up a formula for coinmp (includes CLP and CBC, for linear and mixed-integer optimization) at https://github.com/mlubin/homebrew-coin/blob/master/coinmp.rb. It would be great to have this in the OS X distribution (so linprog and JuMP will work out of the box). If you're bundling these (or any) libraries, please note the copyrights and licenses somewhere in the distribution.

[mlubin]

GLPK is now compatible with homebrew, so I'd recommend bundling this as well. @carlobaldassi

[lsorber]

+1 for CLP/CBC and GLPK in the OS X distribution.

[ViralBShah]

@staticfloat Do you think that on the build machine, we can set things up so that brew installs the binaries in the julia installation directory? That way, we can just rewrite the library dependency paths, and bundle up the whole thing for distribution. Over time, we can add more brew packages too - and there can even be the basic and supercharged batteries version available for download.

[mlubin]

Eventually we should have a more automated system to build OS X binaries for packages, which would be a bit more scalable than trying to include anything you might want in the Julia binary distribution itself. In the near future though (for 0.2 at least), it would definitely be convenient to have these packages bundled.

[staticfloat]

I've written a Homebrew.jl package which addresses this issue pretty directly. It's not ready for prime-time yet, but discussion and bottle requests should go over there.

[ViralBShah]

Great idea to have a Hombrew.jl package!