Re: [Maxima-discuss] Why does 'solve' not work here?

[Barton W. <wi...@un...>]

> thanks a lot for the hint  to Solver(), this could be a candidate for
> standard solver of  our SMath Studio to Maxima interface. Are you aware of
> any good reason to not prefer it over solve()? 

I know little to nothing about the Solver package. You might like to contact the
authors of solver to see if they would be willing to fix bugs or extend their code.
Dan Stanger  fixed up the solver code some years ago to allow it to work with
Maxima,  but I'm not sure that any developer is  familiar with the solver
code (about 3,258 lines of Maxima).

For a comparison, you might like to modify the to_poly_solve rtest file to call Solver. Additionally,
you'll  need to modify the expected solutions. If you need a larger rtest file, I have an (greatly) 
extended rtest file for to_poly_solve (tps).  (Incidentally,  tps is about 807 lines of Maxima
and CL.)

--bw