[request] suitesparse/5.10.1

[SpaceIm]

Package Details

• Package Name/Version: suitesparse/5.10.1
• Website: https://people.engr.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html
• Source code: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse

Description Of The Library / Tool

SuiteSparse is a suite of sparse matrix algorithms.

[ericriff]

Related:

conan-center-index/recipes/ceres-solver/all/conanfile.py

Line 125 in c4aacc9

cmake.definitions["SUITESPARSE"] = False #Optional. Not supported right now because SuiteSparse is not part of conan-index

[sxsong1207]

Yeah, that would be helpful. Without SUITESPARSE, the covariance computation of ceres-solver is extremely slow.

ceres-solver/ceres-solver#766 (comment)

[valgur]

SuiteSparse (v7.7.0) is ready for packaging, now that we have a working OpenBLAS with BLAS and LAPACK support and an almost fully-functional OpenMP support (#22353).

As the name suggests, SuiteSparse consists of a suite of mostly independent libraries, where each of them:

• has a distinct versioning scheme,
• varying license terms (e.g. some are GPL, while others are more permissive),
• installs a separate CMake config file (i.e. you would do find_package(AMD) to use suitesparse-amd),
• can be implemented in pure C, while some use C++ as well,
• possibly has library-specific options, e.g. for CUDA support.

So it makes more sense to package each of the sub-components separately, despite it requiring the creation of a considerable number of new packages and related PRs. On the upside, this also allows only specific components to be used as needed, with binaries available and without having to build everything (such as suitesparse-graphblas, which can take up to an hour to build with pre-built kernels enabled).

Here's the list of PRs for each of the sub-package:

• suitesparse-config: new recipe #23540
• suitesparse-amd: new recipe #23541
• suitesparse-camd: new recipe #23543
• suitesparse-colamd: new recipe #23545
• suitesparse-ccolamd: new recipe #23544
• suitesparse-cholmod: new recipe #23553
• suitesparse-btf: new recipe #23542
• suitesparse-cxsparse: new recipe #23546
• suitesparse-graphblas: new recipe #23320
• suitesparse-klu: new recipe #23547
• suitesparse-lagraph: new recipe #23548
• suitesparse-ldl: new recipe #23549
• suitesparse-mongoose: new recipe #23550
• suitesparse-paru: new recipe #23555
• suitesparse-rbio: new recipe #23551
• suitesparse-spex: new recipe #23552
• suitesparse-spqr: new recipe #23556
• suitesparse-umfpack: new recipe #23554

I did not create a suitesparse meta-package currently, but it could be added later.