There are too many options for the path trackers in phc -p to wrap them properly within the trackPaths() method. With interactive turned on, the user can tune all parameters of the path trackers, in the same way as running phc -p.
The option interactive is also supported to run the polyhedral homotopies to solve random coefficient systems with phc -c, in the mixedVolume function with the option StartSystem set to true.
The object interactive is a symbol.
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