Reported by Clancy Rowley on 2014-07-26
I'm considering rewriting some of the routines in python-control so that it will no longer depend on SLICOT. The main reasons for this are that 1) because SLICOT is written in Fortran, installation can be a pain (see several other comments in this forum); 2) SLICOT has apparently now gone closed-source; 3) most of the key functionality SLICOT provides (e.g., solving Lyapunov equations and Riccati equations) is now included in scipy.linalg, so I'm thinking this might not be too much of a pain.

Does anybody have thoughts or opinions on this?