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From 13 Sep 2016 to 12 Oct 2016
12 Oct 2016
- 18:25 Bug #945: Emacs UI: comint buffer silently truncates(?) long lines when sending
- The following URL may help:...
- 17:19 Bug #945: Emacs UI: comint buffer silently truncates(?) long lines when sending
- One easy way to avoid the problem is to paste the line into a buffer in @cocoa5-mode@ (_e.g._ associated to a CoCoA-5...
- 17:15 Bug #945: Emacs UI: comint buffer silently truncates(?) long lines when sending
- Note that issue #433 dealt with the problem of sending long lines from a @cocoa5-mode@ buffer to the interactive CoCo...
- 17:08 Bug #945 (Closed): Emacs UI: comint buffer silently truncates(?) long lines when sending
- I sent a long line to an interactive cocoa5 inside emacs (v.24.5).
CoCoA saw only the first part of the input line; ... - 16:56 Feature #13: (short) manual for emacs interface
- This is probably not the right place, but I happened upon the following web page about problems with Emacs becoming v...
- 16:02 Support #851: Release: CoCoA-5.2.0
- Add also to check whether the CoCoA-5 tests pass with @BackwardCompatible.cpkg5@
(automatize this step) - 15:58 Support #851 (In Progress): Release: CoCoA-5.2.0
- First round of @make ManExamples@
(checked and made a few fixes in Makefile) - 15:07 Design #943: Managing credits
- Yes, it would be good to find a way of giving recognition to those who have contributed to CoCoA(Lib).
A possible ... - 14:29 Design #943 (In Progress): Managing credits
- From #711 (8) (External Libs: print credits?)
If we do implement some scheme for recognising use of external librari... - 14:33 Feature #711 (Feedback): External Libs: print credits?
- list of linked libraries is printed what cocoa starts.
For the refinements I opened issue #943.
Feedback on this? ...
10 Oct 2016
- 21:13 Support #940: Check all fns in packages work even without BackwardCompatible.cpkg5
- There is quite a lot of "cruft" in the packages: either commented out code or code which I suspect can never be calle...
- 21:04 Support #940 (In Progress): Check all fns in packages work even without BackwardCompatible.cpkg5
- I have already make a first pass at cleaning up the packages, but there is still more to do.
The CoCoA-5 tests are... - 20:55 Support #940 (Closed): Check all fns in packages work even without BackwardCompatible.cpkg5
- Even though (we hope that) all the packages are destined to migrate to CoCoALib, it is probably worth keeping them re...
- 21:09 Support #941: Improve coverage of CoCoA-5 tests
- This is likely to be an arduous task, and will surely take a long time.
My hope is that the same tests can still b... - 21:07 Support #941 (New): Improve coverage of CoCoA-5 tests
- While trying to "modernize" the CoCoA-5 packages, I thought that running the CoCoA-5 tests would be a good way of tra...
- 18:54 Design #929 (In Progress): Clean up CoCoALibSupplement
- I had already done some cleaning, so that now @IsConvertible@ is not used.
Now I removed the commented out old code.... - 18:23 Bug #880 (Feedback): subst should check that indet is in same ring as 1st arg, but does not.
- 18:23 Bug #880: subst should check that indet is in same ring as 1st arg, but does not.
- Done. cvs-ed.
- 17:53 Design #868: Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Every so often we should run the tests without the BackwardCompatible package. (I tho... - 17:01 Design #868: Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- John Abbott wrote:
> By "smoothly" do you mean that it should not yet be moved to @obsolete.cpkg5@?
Yes, that's w... - 16:51 Design #868: Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- By "smoothly" do you mean that it should not yet be moved to @obsolete.cpkg5@?
We could even move @Bin@ to @obsole... - 16:05 Design #868: Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- No need to do any change: the official names are indeed @binomial@ and @deriv@ as in cocoalib.
I'd rather keep @Bin@... - 15:38 Design #868: Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- My preference is for *@deriv@* in both CoCoALib and CoCoA-5, but that is not backward compatible :-/
I think @deriv@... - 14:41 Design #868 (Feedback): Der, Bin: why the capital letter?
- Should we change @deriv@ into @der@ in CoCoALib?
- 17:44 Feature #845: Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5.1.6: zero dimensional, finite characteristic
- I believe this is at a good point, especially for prime cardinality. Elisa?
- 17:05 Feature #877 (Feedback): Easier syntax to make a PRINCIPAL ideal?
- Close this issue? I think that @ideal(x)@ is hard to beat ;-)
- 16:04 Design #939: Rename Fact to factorial?
- No need to do any change: the official name is indeed @factorial@.
I'd rather keep @Fact@ working smoothly for some ... - 15:28 Design #939: Rename Fact to factorial?
- In #868 (comment 3) Anna pointed out that the name *@Fact@* could easily be seen as ambiguous (short for *@factorial@...
- 15:21 Design #939 (Closed): Rename Fact to factorial?
- I suggest renaming *@Fact@* to *@factorial@*, the same name as used in CoCoALib.
This change is not backward-compati... - 15:13 Bug #852 (Feedback): fix OnlineManual.C so that version number may be removed from CoCoAHelp.xml
- Yes, apparently I thought I still needed the version in the xml, but I don't.
I cannot imagine what may go wrong rem... - 14:56 Bug #852: fix OnlineManual.C so that version number may be removed from CoCoAHelp.xml
- It seems this is no longer needed.
... I cannot find any use of version and date in online.C...
another thing I did... - 14:38 Support #863 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 manual: IsInteger and IsRational are missing?
- I wrote it in June, and forgot to report it.
Feedback now. - 14:34 Feature #903: New function CallOnGroebnerFanIdeals: call function on GFan ideals
- cvs-ed manual
- 13:44 Feature #903 (Feedback): New function CallOnGroebnerFanIdeals: call function on GFan ideals
- added @CallOnGroebnerFanIdeals@. Works fine.
Philosophically a stream would be cleaner, but no time to think about ... - 13:51 Feature #927: Add "exit" in addition to "ciao"
- I have added the keywords *@exit@* and *@quit@* to the file @cocoa5.el@.
- 13:40 Bug #918 (Closed): UniversalGBasis: sometimes gives error
08 Oct 2016
- 22:04 Feature #606: Evaluate in ring operator (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- The suggestion of another function (perhaps called @ReadExprList@) still seems good to me.
Hmmm, but then again a ... - 21:59 Feature #909 (Feedback): ReadExpr: decimal point
- I think I have fixed it all now.
The comment about changed semantics (comment 5) no longer holds!
Note that @1....
03 Oct 2016
- 14:13 Bug #757 (Feedback): readline: fix script for finding libreadline
- This has been "resolved" for 4 months; moving it to "feedback". I expect the current scripts are not perfect, but th...
- 12:29 Bug #755: Find out how to compile statically on linux
- I record that on 2016-05-20 Logar sent the following email (in italian) which says that the critical linux package to...
22 Sep 2016
- 08:41 Design #929 (In Progress): Clean up CoCoALibSupplement
- Many functions in CoCoALibSupplement are just there because they need conversion from BigInt to long (or vector of Bi...
- 08:39 Support #290: Which functions are defined in CoCoALibSupplement?
- Many functions in CoCoALibSupplement are just there because they need conversion from BigInt to long (or vector of Bi...
21 Sep 2016
- 22:08 Bug #928: ciao, exit, quit can be used not only at top level
- Marked as low priority as it probably affects no-one (unless someone is looking for trouble by putting @ciao/exit/qui...
- 22:03 Bug #928 (New): ciao, exit, quit can be used not only at top level
- The manual for ciao/exit/quit says the command can be used only at top level. This is apparently not true....
- 22:00 Feature #927 (Resolved): Add "exit" in addition to "ciao"
- What I did to add command "exit".
cd src/CoCoA-5
fgrep Ciao Lexer.C
--> Keyword("Ciao", TT_CIAO)
In Lexer.H ... - 21:32 Feature #927: Add "exit" in addition to "ciao"
- I think it should not be too hard to add an "exit" command, but this means introducing a new keyword which could, in ...
- 17:52 Feature #927 (Closed): Add "exit" in addition to "ciao"
16 Sep 2016
- 18:22 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- Tried: John's compilation (for 10.6) works on 10.11.
So for next release we can use his compilation.
(it's on my wh... - 17:56 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- I tried the suggestion:...
- 15:57 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- See also this link @http://grauonline.de/wordpress/?p=71@
JAA thinks it could be useful.
- 15:55 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- The @nm@ function on my computer (Mac OS X 10.6.8) complains that a compiled program from Anna's 10.11 Mac is *@malfo...
- 14:47 Bug #922 (Closed): Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- Binary from 10.11 gives @Illegal instruction@ on 10.6.8.
Investigate how to solve this, and at what OS version the...
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