Activity
From 22 Jun 2014 to 21 Jul 2014
21 Jul 2014
- 18:39 Bug #279 (Feedback): Bug in Radical (actually a RingHom problem)
- found the bug: usual ref-count bug on RINGHOM.
Found a few more little bugs in the way ;-)
18 Jul 2014
- 16:08 Feature #518: incr/decr functions: to be used in packages
- John Abbott wrote:
> "incr" is most used in @list.cpkg5@ for @QuickSort1@ and @QuickSortBy1@.
I updated the code ... - 12:55 Bug #543 (Feedback): Interpreter: problem when calling the manual with trailing spaces and comments
- done
- 10:15 Support #522 (Feedback): Manual: duplication in "see also" and "All other matches"
- Seems ok on @round@ and @indets@.
(code in @OnlineHelp@ is pretty horrible, but it works) - 09:06 Bug #524 (Feedback): BuiltInFunctions: remove calls to WrongTypeException
- All done (@ascii@, @apply@, @ContentWRT@, @CoefficientWRT@).
Changed priority to high because I'm presenting this in...
16 Jul 2014
- 19:01 Bug #524: BuiltInFunctions: remove calls to WrongTypeException
- Done BaseRing. I'll do the rest tomorrow
- 15:51 Bug #34: CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- Yes, obsolescent functions should give some warning that they are going to disappear (and presumably what to do inste...
- 15:40 Bug #34: CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- Remember that obsolescent functions should be moved to the package @obsolescent.cpkg5@.
Now they all works silently.... - 15:37 Bug #34 (Feedback): CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- Done. Rule for maintaining it.
(1) Add [OBSOLETE] or [OBSOLESCENT] in the title of obsolete/obsolescent functions, ... - 15:18 Support #488 (Resolved): CoCoAManual: Help page for porting old C4 code to C5
- I set a manual chapter for these kind of information.
It is called <title>Migrating from CoCoA-4 and keeping up-to... - 13:43 Support #488: CoCoAManual: Help page for porting old C4 code to C5
- OK
- 12:44 Support #488: CoCoAManual: Help page for porting old C4 code to C5
- John Abbott wrote:
> I have added a manual page entitled *@updating CoCoA-4 code@*; and another entitled *@CoCoA-4 m... - 12:32 Bug #566 (Closed): Online help: problem with "<>"
- 12:27 Feature #590 (Closed): package for subalgebras
- In cocoa-4 there was a package to compute with subalgebras.
Restore it.
15 Jul 2014
- 18:14 Feature #588 (Feedback): Resume code for "gin" (generic initial ideal)
- Done in package.
Implemented only using twin-floats with range [-10^6, 10^6].
No point in offering more flexibility... - 15:42 Feature #588 (Closed): Resume code for "gin" (generic initial ideal)
- Resurrect code for "gin", and implement it in cocoalib
- 14:38 Bug #34: CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- John Abbott wrote:
> I propose adding @OBSOLETE@ (in capitals) as the first word of the title;
I made it all capi... - 13:48 Bug #34: CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- I think your suggestion is a good one.
I propose adding @OBSOLETE@ (in capitals) as the first word of the title; t... - 12:37 Bug #34: CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> I added the key "obsolete".
> now
> [...]
> gives the list of obsolete commands (whi... - 12:27 Design #525 (Feedback): BuiltInFunctions: evalArgAsT1OrT2, evalArgAsT1OrT2OrT3, ... last argument
- cvs-ed
- 11:02 Design #525 (Resolved): BuiltInFunctions: evalArgAsT1OrT2, evalArgAsT1OrT2OrT3, ... last argument
- We agreed that it would be handy to have the same interface for
*evalArgAsT1orT2* and *evalArgAsT1orT2orT3*.
The la...
14 Jul 2014
- 18:17 Support #559 (Closed): Release: CoCoA-5.1.0
- I did this work a long time ago, but never got to deal with the GUI for windows.
No longer makes sense now: going fo... - 18:09 Design #493 (Feedback): Cleanup Hilbert package hp.cpkg5
- resurrected and documented functions *HilbertSeriesShifts* and *HilbertSeriesMultiDeg*
they are just shortcuts to av... - 10:32 Feature #273 (Feedback): Package for Polynomial Algebra Homomorphisms
- checked in documentation.
Next step (new issue): port it into cocoalib.
- 09:26 Feature #484: Evaluate in other ring (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- *ReadExpr* documented, cvs-ed
(updated entry for RingElem) - 08:22 Feature #484: Evaluate in other ring (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- In CoCoALib we can read expressions from strings with *ReadExpr(RING, STRING)*.
I'm going to add it to cocoa-5 so you...
11 Jul 2014
- 14:35 Feature #273: Package for Polynomial Algebra Homomorphisms
- - cleaned up into a package
- tests included in Makefile
- documentation still missing (should be just a minor fix ...
04 Jul 2014
- 12:12 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- John Abbott wrote:
> Should this issue be in CoCoA-5 or CoCoALib?
I think it can stay in CoCoA-5 because it is ea... - 11:39 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- Should this issue be in CoCoA-5 or CoCoALib?
You are right that there is no global register of rings currently. W... - 10:50 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- John Abbott wrote:
> I'm still not happy with the name of @RingID@; the name makes me think that it *gets* the ID fr...
03 Jul 2014
- 13:28 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- I'm still not happy with the name of @RingID@; the name makes me think that it *gets* the ID from a ring, rather than...
- 11:41 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- added function ID for RING
- 11:29 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- what about this: (verbose, but not more than before the ID change)
I like it! .... but there is the problem of too m... - 09:05 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- John Abbott wrote:
> Yesterday Christof suggested that @ZZ@ and @QQ@ should always be printed that way (rather than ... - 08:56 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- Yesterday Christof suggested that @ZZ@ and @QQ@ should always be printed that way (rather than @ring(0)@ and @ring(1)...
- 08:40 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- fixed all tests, but we should still discuss on the output.
For example ...
02 Jul 2014
- 18:42 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- mostly done.... now I should update all the failing tests.... tomorrow
- 17:21 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- John Abbott wrote:
> allow @RingID@ to have an optional second arg which is a string giving some info about the ring ... - 17:19 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- Talked about this with Christof. Here's an idea we had:
allow @RingID@ to have an optional second arg which is a st... - 16:54 Design #532 (Closed): New package: OBSOLESCENT
- 16:45 Support #456: CoCoAManual: New structure for manual?
- Strictly related with #177
- 16:40 Support #177: CoCoAManual: General part of the documentation is obsolete: update? discard?
- This was a very general issue: now split in more issues (mostly already closed in 5.1.0)
- 16:29 Bug #34 (Resolved): CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
- I added the key "obsolete".
now ... - 16:11 Design #567 (Closed): Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote
- No comments so another quick check and ... closing!
- 16:08 Bug #566 (Feedback): Online help: problem with "<>"
- it's fine for me too... maybe we changed the code for some other reason and fixed this as a side effect.
- 16:03 Bug #397 (Closed): EMACS UI: fix windows splitting
- This is discussed (and solved) in #464
Instead of trying to be clever now there are two entries in the CoCoA-5 menu ... - 14:31 Feature #561: Emacs UI: unrecognized keywords (ImportByValue...)
- fixed @ImportBy..@ and also @package@ (lower-case)
major cleaning of keyword strings (so that they almost none is wr... - 11:47 Feature #579 (In Progress): Prototype package for Linear Commutative Algebra
- Write a prototype package for the algorithms described in the new Kreuzer-Robbiano book.
[related with Elisa Palezza... - 11:43 Support #398 (Closed): Resurrect Relnotes()
01 Jul 2014
- 17:09 Feature #578 (In Progress): Gaussian Elimination
- The procedures @SwapRows@ and @SetRow@ were already available.
Now they are in the manual. - 17:06 Feature #578 (In Progress): Gaussian Elimination
- In CoCoALib we have some functions for Gaussian Elimination.
Choose which and how to make them available at CoCoA-5 ... - 17:02 Feature #464 (Feedback): Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
- 17:02 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
- I slightly improved the menu so that it indicates which splitting is defined.
(with a tick next to side-by-side or t...
28 Jun 2014
- 20:48 Feature #464 (Resolved): Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
- I think I fixed the "random" behaviour for the window splitting.
I added the choice in the CoCoA-5 menu and the flag...
26 Jun 2014
- 15:33 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- If there were any serious problems, they'd have come to light by now (almost 24 hours of testing!)
Closing.
- 12:27 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- > All in all, it really does seem to be a "useless" feature...
and was not in CoCoA-4. It's a pointless exception.
- 12:12 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- Here is a possible reason for wanting to allow juxtaposition of strings: if an input includes a very long string lite...
- 15:14 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- How will rings be printed in resolutions?
I recall that CoCoA used a syntax like @ring#7@; we could do this (but i... - 15:11 Bug #182 (Closed): Unescaped double quote inside superstring
- This bug essentially vanished when we abolished multiline string literals.
Now that juxtaposed strings literals ar... - 12:06 Bug #182: Unescaped double quote inside superstring
- I have (temporarily?) disabled recognition of juxtaposed strings. The resulting behaviour on the example input is:
... - 12:03 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
- OK for a menu flag which indicates the preferred way of splitting.
Some while ago I added to @cocoa5.el@ the fn @c... - 08:24 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
- Apparently (on Aquamacs) it splits horizontally or vertically depending on the width of the window. That may be conf...
- 08:18 Support #559: Release: CoCoA-5.1.0
- Almost all done. still missing: gui on windows
25 Jun 2014
- 19:16 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- I tried; it compiled and all tests pass. Will test more tomorrow, and then check in.
- 17:04 Design #576 (In Progress): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- I believe the relevant source is in @Parser.C@ lines 2095-2103 inclusive.
I'll try commenting out, and see if everyt... - 16:50 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- > Can we remove this "feature? What was the original reason for wanting this?
The original reason was to allow it ... - 15:01 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
- Currently CoCoA-5 accepts juxtaposed string literals (_i.e._ separated by nothing or white space).
Can we remove t... - 15:50 Bug #164 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 emacs interface bug (minor): Source & SourceRegion with troublesome filenames
- I have modified @cocoa5.el@ to add escapes for @"@ and newlines inside filenames.
A quick test showed that it works a... - 13:14 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- The name @RingWithID@ is longer than I would like; I originally suggested @ring(3)@ but that is not so clear. Maybe ...
- 13:09 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
- If we go with the idea of printing simply @RingWithID(...)@ then I presume the @describe@ command should fully descri...
- 12:52 Bug #182 (In Progress): Unescaped double quote inside superstring
- If I recall correctly, we abolished "superstrings" in CoCoA-5.1. So the problem is no longer relevant. In any case,...
24 Jun 2014
- 10:36 Bug #279: Bug in Radical (actually a RingHom problem)
- Here is an excerpt from CoCoA (this morning, 20140624)...
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