A simplex optimizer for the rest of us (who may not know PDL).

Changes for 1.8 - 2023-08-16T19:18:42-07:00

• Implement the PDL:😮pt:😛articleSwarm optimization algorithm to optimize PDL's. The function and log callback calling convention is intentionally similar PDL:😮pt::Simplex. Code written to optimize using Simplex can be trivially converted to optimize with Particle Swarm.
• Implement PDL:😮pt:😛articleSwarm::Simple as a subclass of PDL:😮pt::Simplex::Simple. Again, the calling convention for log and function callbacks is very similar, only the optimization-specific options differ.
• PDL:😮pt::Simplex::Simple: do a better job clamping min/max values during optimization so the Simplex algorithm doesn't try to work out of bounds.
• PDL:😮pt::Simplex::Simple: fixed a major perturb_scale bug
• Lots of POD updates, now we achieve 100% POD coverage
• Added many more tests
• Auto-sort MANIFEST as suggested by @mohawk2
• Fixup t/{pod-coverage.t,pod.t,manifest.t} to pass RELEASE_TESTING=1