Xpress Workbench is the technology component which provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows Operations Research professionals, Data Scientists, and Solution Developers to rapidly and collaboratively develop analytic and optimization models, services, and Xpress Insight apps written in Python or Xpress Mosel. It also supports Xpress Mosel—the premier algebraic modelling and optimization language in the world.
FICO Xpress Workbench 3.5.2 is now generally available on Windows 64bit and macOS.It is a maintenance release coming with a few fixes and improved debugging experience and messaging.
Debugging experience
Workbench no longer locally overrides MOSEL_ROPATH environment variable when running Mosel
Fixed: Overriding user's choice of MOSEL_ROPATH environment variable.
Known issue on Desktop: When building an Insight app zip file and then being invited to save a copy outside the project folder, if that copy operation fails (perhaps because the target file already exists and is read-only) it might not be reported by Workbench. A message pops up warning users that this is the case - Workbench cannot figure out whether saving succeeded or not.
Further details and defect fixings can be found in the Xpress release notes.
FICO Xpress Workbench 3.5.2 is now generally available on Windows 64bit and macOS.It is a maintenance release coming with a few fixes and improved debugging experience and messaging.
Debugging experience
- Improved Insight debugging experience, such that no orphan jobs are left when Workbench gets disconnected from Insight.
- For modules without debugging information (such as mminsight), the misleading pop-up will no longer show, instead, the stack trace can be conveniently inspected in the output pane.
Workbench no longer locally overrides MOSEL_ROPATH environment variable when running Mosel
Fixed: Overriding user's choice of MOSEL_ROPATH environment variable.
Known issue on Desktop: When building an Insight app zip file and then being invited to save a copy outside the project folder, if that copy operation fails (perhaps because the target file already exists and is read-only) it might not be reported by Workbench. A message pops up warning users that this is the case - Workbench cannot figure out whether saving succeeded or not.
Further details and defect fixings can be found in the Xpress release notes.
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