John Abbott's activity
From 04 May 2024 to 02 Jun 2024
31 May 2024
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09:42 CoCoALib 0.10 hour (Feature #1743 (In Progress): Implement Truncated GBases for homogeneous input)
- exbug?
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09:42 CoCoALib Feature #1743: Implement Truncated GBases for homogeneous input
- Is it worth putting the ex-bug (mentioned in comment 6 above) as a genuine exbug test?
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09:40 CoCoALib 0.20 hour (Feature #1742 (Resolved): MinGens could be faster)
- Test cases?
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09:40 CoCoALib Feature #1742: MinGens could be faster
- Could we put here a couple of test cases?
I think the "fancy" phrase is "regression testing": make sure the some fut...
27 May 2024
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19:27 CoCoALib Design #1744: Implement GBMill (aka Groebner Framework)
- *THIS* could be a good goal for version 1.0. Do we have enough resources to achieve that?
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19:27 CoCoALib 0.20 hour (Design #1744 (In Progress): Implement GBMill (aka Groebner Framework))
- For v 1.0?
24 May 2024
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10:13 CoCoALib 0.10 hour (Bug #1705 (In Progress): ProgressReporter: prepare for new loop?)
- Or?
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10:13 CoCoALib Bug #1705: ProgressReporter: prepare for new loop?
- Or *@myRestart@*?
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09:49 CoCoALib 0.25 hour (Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer)
- Points to consider
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09:49 CoCoALib Feature #1778: Homogenizer
- Anna has raised some points to consider (related to the last comment above which creates many poly rings)
* *Qn* eac... -
09:10 CoCoALib 5.00 hours (Feature #1817 (In Progress): OSCAR/MaRDI JSON interface)
- Som notes
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09:10 CoCoALib Feature #1817 (In Progress): OSCAR/MaRDI JSON interface
- I have made a first throwaway prototype, mostly to learn about the foibles of the OSCAR/MaRDI JSON format.
I am wo... -
09:08 CoCoALib Feature #1817 (In Progress): OSCAR/MaRDI JSON interface
- Build a good first version of an interface for sending/receiving OSCAR/MaRDI JSON serializations of mathematical obje...
23 May 2024
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21:42 CoCoALib Feature #1778: Homogenizer
- Wolfram Decker would like to have a way of handling the rings involved in projective geometry: namely 1 "homogeneous"...
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21:42 CoCoALib 0.40 hour (Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer)
- Proj geom & charts
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21:34 CoCoALib 0.25 hour (Design #1816 (Feedback): printing rings)
- Fixed 2 tests
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21:34 CoCoALib Design #1816 (Feedback): printing rings
- I have updated the expected output of 2 @src/tests/@
Thanks for fixing this so quickly!
20 May 2024
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17:12 CoCoALib Feature #1381: Type ideal for ZZ[x[1..n]]
- We have GBasis code for poly ideals over ZZ, so make it work with these ideals.
More failing operations:... -
17:12 CoCoALib 0.20 hour (Feature #1381 (In Progress): Type ideal for ZZ[x[1..n]])
- Make GBasis code work
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17:03 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
- Can we close this soon?
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17:03 CoCoALib 0.10 hour (Support #1263 (Resolved): Tidy CoCoALib test directory)
- Close?
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17:01 CoCoALib Slug #1118: SLUG: factorization of x^9999
- How to compute the GCD of x^e1 * g1(x^d1) and x^e2 * g2(x^d2)?
Is it just x^min(e1,e2) * gcd(g1(x^D1), g2(x^D2))[x... -
17:01 CoCoALib 0.10 hour (Slug #1118 (In Progress): SLUG: factorization of x^9999)
- But...
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16:56 CoCoALib 0.20 hour (Support #262 (In Progress): Play with GIT)
- Postpone?
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16:56 CoCoALib Support #262 (In Progress): Play with GIT
- I am strongly tempted to postpone this until after we reach version 1.0.
Pros: putting the sources on GitHub (or s...
13 May 2024
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22:26 CoCoA-5 Design #1508: Initial ring
- The actual message is...
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22:26 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Design #1508 (In Progress): Initial ring)
- Mesg
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22:23 CoCoA-5 0.30 hour (Design #1508 (In Progress): Initial ring)
- Update
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22:23 CoCoA-5 Design #1508: Initial ring
- *(1)* I modified @packages/init.cocoa5@ so that it prints out a message about the initial ring.
This was a *ba...
10 May 2024
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11:16 CoCoA-5 Design #610 (Closed): Variable It: assign before or after printing
- Current behaviour is acceptable (and should still be safe even if we make printing interruptible).
Closing.
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11:16 CoCoA-5 0.15 hour (Design #610 (Closed): Variable It: assign before or after printing)
- Closing
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11:07 CoCoA-5 0.20 hour (Design #1496 (Rejected): Use "special" names for variables inside tests)
- Rejecting
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11:07 CoCoA-5 Design #1496 (Rejected): Use "special" names for variables inside tests
- After brief discussion with Anna: KISS -- it works without problem as is, so don't waste time fixing a problem which...
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10:33 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon)
- Discussion
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10:33 CoCoA-5 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- Anna suggests
*@[[waiting for ";"]]@*
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10:30 CoCoA-5 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- Another suggestion
*@[[incomplete or forgot ";"?]]@*
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10:30 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon)
- Another idea
09 May 2024
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20:58 CoCoALib 0.10 hour (Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer)
- Quick note
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20:58 CoCoALib Feature #1778: Homogenizer
- The interface in OSCAR lets the caller choose where the "new" indeterminates appear in the list of indets of the bigg...
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20:46 CoCoALib Feature #1667: GBasis over ZZ: port to CoCoALib
- The CoCoA-5 version is in @*prototype-GBZZ.cpkg5@*.
I tried just one test, and the CoCoA-5 code was noticeably faste... -
20:46 CoCoALib 0.30 hour (Feature #1667 (In Progress): GBasis over ZZ: port to CoCoALib)
- CoCoA-5 code
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10:24 CoCoA-5 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- Some more thoughts:
* How long may the prompt be?
* For whom is the prompt meant to be useful?
For a complete be... -
10:24 CoCoA-5 0.20 hour (Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon)
- More thoughts
05 May 2024
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21:01 CoCoA-5 Support #1603: Unhelpful behaviour in "compatibility mode": double error mesg
- I'm still with *won't fix* because we have far more important things to do with our time.
Reject?
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21:01 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Support #1603 (Rejected): Unhelpful behaviour in "compatibility mode": double error mesg)
- Ugh!
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20:57 CoCoA-5 0.20 hour (Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon)
- Tricky
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20:57 CoCoA-5 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- It does seem to be hard to find a better prompt without it become too long (and possibly still not covering all cases...
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20:53 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Support #1566 (Closed): What does rad do?)
- Vanished?
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20:53 CoCoA-5 Support #1566: What does rad do?
- There is no *@rad@* function in the current version of CoCoA-5.
Close?
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20:49 CoCoA-5 Slug #1760 (Closed): Quitting can be slow
- This has been done for some time. I'm happy enough with the behaviour... no-one else has complained. So closing.
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20:49 CoCoA-5 0.20 hour (Slug #1760 (Closed): Quitting can be slow)
- Done
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20:44 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Feature #97 (New): OpenOFile)
- Close?
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20:44 CoCoA-5 Feature #97: OpenOFile
- This issue was opened 12 years ago. Have there been any complaints in that time about the differing behaviour?
Ma... -
20:17 CoCoA-5 0.30 hour (Design #1508 (In Progress): Initial ring)
- Summary
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20:17 CoCoA-5 Design #1508: Initial ring
- This issue has been dormant for too long. Here is what I now think:
* the initial ring should have a longer name, I... -
19:53 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Design #1496 (Rejected): Use "special" names for variables inside tests)
- Puzzled
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19:53 CoCoA-5 Design #1496: Use "special" names for variables inside tests
- I originally created this issue, which superficially seems reasonable.
But now I no longer recall exactly which name... -
19:45 CoCoA-5 Bug #1746: ManExamples target: need to reset VerbosityLevel
- The Control-M character seems to appear where a printed line has had a prefix elided.
It is not serious, but I wou... -
19:45 CoCoA-5 0.20 hour (Bug #1746 (Feedback): ManExamples target: need to reset VerbosityLevel)
- Control-M
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19:42 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Design #610 (Closed): Variable It: assign before or after printing)
- Big test
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19:42 CoCoA-5 Design #610: Variable It: assign before or after printing
- I am testing the behaviour by computing a large cyclotomic polynomial (without assigning it). Then compute @1+2@ wit...
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19:39 CoCoA-5 Design #610 (Resolved): Variable It: assign before or after printing
- I believe that the relevant spurce code is around @Interpreter.C:4187@ The line I mean is...
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19:39 CoCoA-5 0.40 hour (Design #610 (Closed): Variable It: assign before or after printing)
- Relevant source code
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19:15 CoCoA-5 0.10 hour (Bug #1708 (New): Linux: just 1 executable, should be 2 (with & without readline))
- Progress?
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19:15 CoCoA-5 Bug #1708: Linux: just 1 executable, should be 2 (with & without readline)
- Have we made any progress with this?
Maybe it suffices to make a few small changes to the scripts which make the rel... -
19:12 CoCoA-5 Bug #1634 (In Progress): Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals
- This specific problem does not arise on a platform with 64-bit @long@; though no doubt a larger example would eventua...
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19:12 CoCoA-5 0.25 hour (Bug #1634 (In Progress): Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals)
- No problem on 64-bitters
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19:03 CoCoA-5 0.25 hour (Bug #1435 (New): Disable readline if input is redirected)
- Useful links?
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19:03 CoCoA-5 Bug #1435: Disable readline if input is redirected
- Here are some possibly useful links:
* *@https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5156675/how-to-use-isatty-on-cout-or-ca... -
18:54 CoCoA-5 Bug #727 (In Progress): Emacs UI: send-file (C-c C-f) should check if buffer and file are synchronized
- Here are some potentially useful links:
* *@https://superuser.com/questions/712237/safely-reload-files-which-are-cha... -
18:54 CoCoA-5 0.25 hour (Bug #727 (In Progress): Emacs UI: send-file (C-c C-f) should check if buffer and file are synchronized)
- Useful links?
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