John Abbott's activity
From 04 Feb 2024 to 04 Mar 2024
01 Mar 2024
- 09:44 CoCoALib Support #1782: Make CoCoALib test file for radical
- Can we (= Anna) do this quickly ready for next interim release?
29 Feb 2024
- 15:33 CoCoALib Bug #1749 (Resolved): Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
- CoCoALib now seems to compile without too many hiccups... Will check in shortly.
Not yet tried CoCoA-5
28 Feb 2024
- 21:32 CoCoALib Bug #1749: Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
- Aha! The examples with @wrong output@ are *all examples* which are expected to produce output.
There are two like... - 20:36 CoCoALib Bug #1749 (In Progress): Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
- I have now changed all messages in the checking scripts so that they specify the full path when referring to @LogFile...
- 19:59 CoCoALib Bug #1749: Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
- I'm hoping to sort this out soon... ideally by tomorrow (ha ha!). It seems I've forgotten username/password (sigh). ...
- 21:27 CoCoA-5 Support #915: When is a semicolon needed to end a statement/command?
- It'd be nice if there were a clean answer to this question, but it is also quite unimportant.
I don't recall ever ha... - 21:24 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
- A possibly related curiosity is that when one exits the GUI by typing in *@ciao;@* it is necessary to dismiss a smal...
- 21:21 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
- I have added Uli as a watcher in case he happens to have an idea how to resolve this... he seems to be a Qt magician ...
- 21:18 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
- The problem persists, but the error message is less alarming now:...
- 21:20 CoCoA-5 Bug #612 (Closed): The C5 gui does not exit properly when using the exit menu entry
- This is apparently a duplicate of #611, so I shall close this issue.
25 Feb 2024
- 19:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
- It seems to have worked on my laptop (Ubuntu). I'll do a few more checks, but hope to include the change in the next...
- 12:39 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
- Thanks Ulrich! There's a lot I do not know about Qt (and many other things too). I hope to try out your suggestion...
24 Feb 2024
- 18:34 CoCoALib Design #1783: Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
- A brief phone discussion with Anna yesterday suggested a vague preference for many-small-files.
But no genuine reaso... - 18:33 CoCoALib Design #1783 (In Progress): Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
- Thoughts about one-big-file vs many-small-files:
For source code:
* ASSUME many-small-files means many header fil... - 18:32 CoCoALib Design #1783 (In Progress): Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
- I'd like to discuss briefly the pros & cons of many-small-files and one-big-file. Currently the CoCoALib code is a m...
23 Feb 2024
- 12:07 CoCoALib Feature #379: Iter for subsets/tuples
- *ANNA* will test this over the next week :-)
- 11:38 CoCoALib Slug #1754 (Closed): IsSqFree poorly implemented
- 11:34 CoCoALib Support #1265 (Closed): Unregistered TXT files in doc
19 Feb 2024
- 21:28 CoCoALib Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
- Winfried sent me the following message by email:...
17 Feb 2024
- 21:27 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
- Partial success: compilation succeeded, but attempting to run the resulting executable produced an error *@Cannot fin...
- 21:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
- Great! Thanks for sorting this out. I shall test it (on Linux) shortly -- let's hope it works!
16 Feb 2024
- 21:31 CoCoALib Feature #1513: Better test for univariate-ness (and better conversion)
- Assuming we do implement this, what should its UI be?
Do we already have a function which converts from @SparsePolyR... - 21:22 CoCoALib Design #1735 (In Progress): PushFront/PushBack without checks?
- I have just tried disabling the checks inside *@PushFront@* and *@PushBack@*. There was no difference when calling @...
- 10:00 CoCoALib Design #1735: PushFront/PushBack without checks?
- As I stated in the comment just above: I should test whether a non-checking impl would really make it faster. Maybe ...
- 20:54 CoCoALib Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
- I have added Nico Mexis as a watcher. He has successfully built CoCoA-5 for Microsoft, so may have some useful insig...
- 20:53 CoCoALib Feature #1670: Build also dynamic/shared library for CoCoALib?
- Here are some posibly useful links: (I searched for *@libtool tutorial@*
* @https://stackoverflow.com/questions/446... - 20:47 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
- I have confirmed that Anna's 0-dim check makes it much faster. I have added a link to issue #1103 which is about pse...
- 20:44 CoCoALib Design #1642 (In Progress): interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
- I have made a first impl. Anna is sceptical, partly because the code behaves differently depending on the coefficien...
- 17:02 CoCoALib Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
- The source code seems to be in *@SparsePolyOps-vector.C@* around line 32.
- 09:42 CoCoALib Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
- Would we also want to have @interreduced@ work when the coeff ring is @ZZ@?
If so, we need to think about the semant... - 18:19 CoCoALib Design #849 (In Progress): Cleanup MinPoly code
- In 8 years we have never really needed the proposed new API, so we may as well *reject* this issue (as Anna suggested...
- 18:05 CoCoALib Feature #813: Implement "elim" in CoCoALib
- The syntax should be compatible with whatever we use for @ElimMat@, I presume.
Well, there is an important differenc... - 17:41 CoCoALib Feature #645 (Rejected): Automatic mapping of RingElem: user selectable at run-time (GlobalManager?)
- We have auto mapping in many places without any real problems.
If the user disables auto mapping then this may cause... - 09:55 CoCoALib Feature #1472: Idea for for loops
- While it can be difficult to say much positive about Julia, it does offer a convenient way of using "iterators" (and ...
- 09:46 CoCoALib Bug #1575: DynamicBitset missing arg checks
- There are a few functions whose name has a suffix like *@_NoArgChecks@*.
OK, a quick grep produces just one such pub... - 09:33 CoCoALib Support #1672: Documentation: a good model to follow?
- Here is a list of features it would be nice to offer in the CoCoALib documentation:
* cross-references (xrefs)
* sm... - 09:24 CoCoALib Feature #1748: July 2023
- What is the status of this issue? How much did we achieve?
15 Feb 2024
- 22:35 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
- As far as I can see *@MinPowerInIdeal@* is already implemented, using the method Anna described above.
See near line...
09 Feb 2024
- 10:29 CoCoALib Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
- OK to require that input to *@syz@* are all non-zero.
Also OK for a new fn which accepts zero -- not sure how this s... - 10:13 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- I remind you of the function *@IsConstant@* which should be helpful in this case (if IsField(CoeffRing)).
08 Feb 2024
- 22:08 CoCoALib Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer
- I have implemented @homogenizer@ in OSCAR, and am happy with the interface it gives. Also some others are using it, ...
- 22:02 CoCoA-5 Bug #1781 (Feedback): GenReprCompute: SERIOUS ERROR
- I have just sync'ed with CVS, and @CoCoA5/tests/tut-CoCoLA3@ gives **SERIOUS ERROR**
Oops! Too late to invesigate... - 21:55 CoCoALib Feature #202: MatrixView/function for viewing a single row or column (RowMat, ColMat)
- What is the status of this issue? With luck we can soon close it!
- 21:51 CoCoALib Support #1687 (In Progress): Release CoCoALib 0.99850
- 21:37 CoCoALib Feature #379 (Feedback): Iter for subsets/tuples
- I have now added a first impl of *@TupleIter@* following the idea behind @SubsetIter@, _i.e._ the tuples are from the...
05 Feb 2024
- 21:29 CoCoALib Bug #1779 (In Progress): Radical error with lex (again)
- It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if the input is a non-zero constant.
I suppose I made it ...
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