Talk:Minion (solver)

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Just in case a VfD come along..

I am going to expand this page. Minion is (in my opinion) notable, as it has been referenced in two papers at respected conferences, ECAI 06 and CP 06. This page will get better! Mrjeff 15:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree - Minion is not notable because it has zero users outside the CP community, is poorly documented, extremely bug-ridden (I challenge anyone to point to a more defective constraint solver). Its primary mailing list for users averages 10 messages per year, and three years have passed since you claimed this page will get better - in that time it has not been changed.

This page should be removed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.154.134 (talk • contribs)

Opinion much? No one is carrying a grudge around here... nope. no one... Since we're all busy slinging opinions around here, I've found the minion docs to be fairly complete, not that that matters for the purposes of keeping the article. Minion is interesting because it exposes an interesting and useful set of constraints in a handy language which has a shallow learning curve, and that it operates very quickly for some problem types. As Mrjeff pointed out, there are multiple papers on it. It is interesting and useful work. --68.238.164.208 (talk) 09:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]