[new package] cminpack

[luau-project]

Description

According to the description given by the author Frédéric Devernay on https://github.com/devernay/cminpack, cminpack is a C/C++ rewrite of the MINPACK software (originally in FORTRAN) for solving nonlinear equations and nonlinear least squares problems.

Positive points

• cminpack is a mature library, which has been around for almost 20 years;
• reentrant code;
• API is more user friendly than that one found in the original Fortran minpack;
• Eigen (a scientific library) mentions to have used cminpack in their implementation of nonlinear optimization https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/unsupported/index.html, https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/blob/master/unsupported/Eigen/NonLinearOptimization?ref_type=heads#L45;
• Available on a large number of repositories (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch) for almost a decade https://repology.org/project/cminpack/versions.

Website

http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/cminpack/