John Abbott's activity
From 14 Feb 2022 to 15 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022
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12:01 CoCoALib Support #1672 (New): Documentation: a good model to follow?
- I found the following link which claim that Arch Linux doc is particularly well written:
https://www.theregister.com...
12 Mar 2022
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19:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
- Why does the code compile without *@#include <thread>@*? (in file @C5.H@)
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19:18 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
- It works for me too :-)
I'll clean up, and check into CVS.
Thanks to Ulrich!
07 Mar 2022
05 Mar 2022
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14:48 CoCoALib Feature #1652 (In Progress): Add LM to cocoalib ?
- Any progress to report here? Also Gereon Kremer is hoping to use @DivAlg@.
It is surprising that it is (apparently)...
03 Mar 2022
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16:54 CoCoA-5 Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?
- Current impl just looks up the word around cursor -- it ignores the selected region.
It also advances the cursor pas... -
15:29 CoCoALib Feature #1670: Build also dynamic/shared library for CoCoALib?
- There is some information at the following URL -- no idea how reliable it might be.
@https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-... -
14:55 CoCoA-5 Feature #1671 (New): Refactor C++ impl in OnlineHelp
- The code in @OnlineHelp.C@ needs to be refactored (to make it smaller and more maintainable; extreme speed is not imp...
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14:42 CoCoALib Support #1555: Software licence
- Gereon has confirmed that the trial version seems to be fine for his purposes:
in ptic, he needed a revised copyrigh...
02 Mar 2022
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13:59 CoCoALib Feature #1670 (New): Build also dynamic/shared library for CoCoALib?
- Bruns asks whether we could arrange for CoCoA to build also a dynamic/shared library.
This should work on Linux/Ma...
25 Feb 2022
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11:28 CoCoA-5 Support #1393 (Resolved): GUI with Qt5
- I have tried Ulrich's patches and it works!
I did also try switching to @std::thread@ etc. Everything compiled, b...
24 Feb 2022
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17:59 CoCoALib Design #1669: Review File subtree hierarchy
- Some suggestions:
* separate @configuration@ from the subdir containing scripts.
* the subtree for CoCoA-5 document... -
17:57 CoCoALib Design #1669 (New): Review File subtree hierarchy
- After writing a script to make a copy of the sources,
I would like to suggest a review of the structure of
the sour... -
14:23 CoCoA-5 Support #530: Interpreter error message: "for" with missing "do"
- Is it really worth investing effort trying to fix this?
The err mesgs are inconsistent but nevertheless useful to th...
23 Feb 2022
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12:54 CoCoA-5 Support #1447 (Closed): Manual entry for RandomLinearForm
- The new fn @HomogCompt@ seems to have solved the problem (provided the grading dim is 1).
I'll update the manual.
C... -
12:40 CoCoA-5 Feature #1596: Add CoCoA5 function NmzHilbertBasisKer
- Postponed to 5.4.2 because there are some matters still to be discussed:
* should the return value be a matrix over... -
12:28 CoCoA-5 Support #1478 (Closed): HilbertBasis: clarify
- This has been completely resolved by introducing the new function *@NmzHilbertBasisKer@* (see issue #1596).
The new ... -
12:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029: Readline: does not recognize interrupts
- This works for us now (my Ubuntu box, and Anna on the Linux VM).
We hope this means that the problem has been resolv... -
11:38 CoCoALib Design #1528 (Closed): MacOS compilation with clang
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10:24 CoCoALib Support #1555 (Resolved): Software licence
- I think I have done this mostly now.... quite a gruelling, mind-numbing task. And, yes, it did take a tediously long...
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10:00 CoCoALib Design #855 (Feedback): Copyright and authorship?
- I have done almost all source code files. The remaining exceptions are Simoes and Arri.
Already checked in.
18 Feb 2022
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17:40 CoCoA-5 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- Consider the number of changes since the last "official" release (5.3.2), and decide whether to call this one 5.3.4 o...
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17:16 CoCoA-5 Support #1455 (Closed): In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
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17:15 CoCoA-5 Support #1214 (Closed): CoCoAManual: ensure that LaTeX compilation is "clean"
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17:13 CoCoA-5 Support #1451 (Closed): CoCoA Manual: make search keys public
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17:01 CoCoA-5 Design #1525 (Closed): CoCoA Manual: homogenize obsolete/obsolescent entries
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16:57 CoCoALib Feature #1001 (In Progress): CoCoALib: ideas for student projects
- This issue and #242 cover similar ground.
Suggestion: *split the 2 issues into: ones for CoCoA-5, and ones for CoC... -
16:55 CoCoA-5 Support #242 (In Progress): CoCoA-5 Projects for students (e.g. crediti F and tesi)
- This issue and #1001 cover similar ground.
Suggestion: *split the 2 issues into: one for CoCoA-5, and one for CoCo... -
16:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029: Readline: does not recognize interrupts
- Maybe the simplest is to add this to the pre-release checks...?
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15:34 CoCoA-5 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
- I would still like o see more helpful guidance for linux users; not all linux users are experts.
How can one unpac... -
15:26 CoCoALib Design #581 (Closed): C++14: MachineInt
- I have fixed some minor bugs -- Bruns compiled on some weird platform which highlighted them.
Checked in. Hoping it...
17 Feb 2022
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21:22 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272 (Closed): Groebner Bases over ZZ
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20:28 CoCoALib Feature #1598: RingHom: implement phi(X) as apply(phi, X) also for X vector and matrix
- I have now removed @apply@ from all the packages as well... sigh!
All tests pass now. -
20:07 CoCoALib Feature #1598 (Feedback): RingHom: implement phi(X) as apply(phi, X) also for X vector and matrix
- I have now made @apply@ obsolescent, and updated the doc.
Hopefully all is OK now... I'd better run the tests (sigh... -
19:37 CoCoALib Feature #1210: New Fn: make public "coefficients" (of poly wrt a given PP basis)
- If we require that the supplied QB be in order (incr or decr?)
then the question about permutations goes away.
Ca...
16 Feb 2022
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20:49 CoCoALib Support #1481 (Resolved): Release CoCoALib 0.99800
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20:45 CoCoALib Feature #1580 (Closed): New fn prim for polys
- Closing this issue. Created new issue for the generalization: #1668
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20:43 CoCoALib Feature #1668 (New): Generalize prim
- Generalize the function *@prim@* (see #1580).
Let it work in "towers" of extensions (where that makes sense).
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20:41 CoCoALib Design #1528 (Feedback): MacOS compilation with clang
- I have just searched quickly for doc about the mem fns for sending OpenMath serializations, but found nothing.
The g... -
20:37 CoCoA-5 Support #1077: Manual: remove old stuff about "devices"
- We should eventually actually do this!!!
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20:36 CoCoA-5 Support #1214 (Feedback): CoCoAManual: ensure that LaTeX compilation is "clean"
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20:33 CoCoA-5 Design #1504 (Resolved): OnlineHelp: XMLFileName
- Can we close this issue?
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20:25 CoCoALib Support #467 (Resolved): Keep CoCoALib web page up to date! All pages!
- I think this is largely automatic now.
Can we close?
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20:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1534: Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+
- *ANNA!* Please can you do this just before releasing?
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20:21 CoCoA-5 Support #406: Manual for CoCoAManual/CoCoAHelp.xml
- I'm postponing this again.
Writing documentation is somehow always "low priority", but writing documentation about w... -
20:19 CoCoA-5 Design #1477 (Resolved): Packages: questions from Andraschko
- Point *(E)* is a very valid point; does Anna have a solution?
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20:16 CoCoA-5 Support #1455 (Feedback): In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
- I guess we shall soon find out if the new script has overlooked some file(s).
Status: feedback.
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20:15 CoCoA-5 Support #1451 (Feedback): CoCoA Manual: make search keys public
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20:11 CoCoA-5 Support #1658 (Closed): LinKerZZ not documented
- No one objected to the name @LinKerZZ@, and the discussion in issue #206 seemed to favour that name.
So sticking wit... -
20:07 CoCoA-5 Feature #1479 (Closed): CoCoA release for linux: CoCoAInterpreter: with and without libreadline?
- Closing after 1 year in feedback.
The only thing left is to remember to make 2 executables (if we want to do that).
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20:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #606 (Closed): Evaluate in ring operator (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- No one objected, so I am closing this issue.
I think a combination of @CanonicalHom@, @BringIn@ and @RingElem(R, str... -
20:00 CoCoALib Feature #1667 (In Progress): GBasis over ZZ: port to CoCoALib
- Port the GBasis over ZZ code (prototype in a CoCoA-5 package) into C++.
Also make several algorithmic improvements... -
19:57 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I'll close this as it is now in CVS, and should be in the next release (with 1 fn documented).
It could be a good st... -
19:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #1524 (Closed): wrong SystemCommand exit value
- Julian did report verbally (quite some time ago) that he had had problems with @SystemCommand@ working erratically:
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19:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029 (Resolved): Readline: does not recognize interrupts
- I suppose we should try to test the Linux executable just before distributing it.
Or should I make the executable on... -
19:42 CoCoALib Support #1666: MachineInt: chase through ULL changes
- We will need new tests too.
Oh joy! That C++ has inherited so many "complicated/confusing" integer types...
Desi... -
19:39 CoCoALib Support #1666 (In Progress): MachineInt: chase through ULL changes
- (2022-02-16) now using ULL as internal repr for @MachineInt@.
Must chase though all changes:
* check all calls to @... -
19:37 CoCoALib Design #581 (Resolved): C++14: MachineInt
- I have modified the impl to use @unsigned long long int@ as the internal repr;
there is also a second impl which use...
15 Feb 2022
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21:43 CoCoALib Design #581: C++14: MachineInt
- This is not as straightforward as I was hoping.
It is not hard to change the internal repr (to @long long int@ or ev... -
10:49 CoCoALib Support #1665: Compilation on Windows: problems for normaliz
- You may need to set a "library path" to tell the system to look for libraries in "unusual places" (namely @/home/coco...
14 Feb 2022
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18:25 CoCoALib Feature #1235 (Closed): FreeModule: get canonical basis
- All done. Closing.
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18:22 CoCoALib Support #618 (Closed): Instructions for compiling libnormaliz
- This is effectively superseded by issue #1591.
Closing -- the info here seems rather out of date.
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18:10 CoCoALib Design #854 (Closed): Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
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11:01 CoCoALib Support #1664 (New): geobucket: documentation
- How can a user discover "geobuckets" and what they are good for?
Improve the documentation!
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