Activity

From 26 Nov 2016 to 25 Dec 2016

11:40 Feature #993 (In Progress): New function: RingQQi()? extension of QQ with imaginary unit: It would be handy to have @RingQQi()@ (or @NewRingQQi()@).
Very simple to do in CoCoA5 (in this case it has to be ... Anna Maria Bigatti

16:53 Design #990: CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying: I think it is probably better to copy explicitly the files we want in the distribution, rather than copy everything a... John Abbott

20:08 Slug #991: make htmldoc always recreates everything (even if no change was made): The files to check for changes should be @CoCoAHelp.xml@, @aux-files/GUI_help.xsl@, and the files in @aux-files/GUI-e... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:13 Slug #991: make htmldoc always recreates everything (even if no change was made): It may be enough to create (using @touch@?) two sentinel files: one immediately before producing all the HTML files, ... John Abbott
13:10 Slug #991 (Closed): make htmldoc always recreates everything (even if no change was made): It is mildly annoying that the @htmldoc@ target is always rebuilt even if there was no change to the file @CoCoAHelp.... John Abbott

07:53 Design #990: CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying: John Abbott wrote:
> I imagine that @README@ is not needed; all the permissions look wrong to me!
@README@ shoul... Anna Maria Bigatti

15:01 Design #990: CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying: I am trying to write a @make install@ target for CoCoA-5, and this involves copying the manual.
Rather than blindly ... John Abbott
14:55 Design #990 (In Progress): CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying: I have noticed that several files inside our source tree have wrong permissions:
* all @source.C@ files should have ... John Abbott
14:50 Design #990 (Closed): CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying: I have had a quick look at the files in the distribution of CoCoA-5.1.5, and I think some tidying is needed.
* Sever... John Abbott

11:36 Design #989 (In Progress): init file obligatory?: If it can be done quickly, I see no objection to having a *@--no-packages@* option.
I am not entirely happy about ... John Abbott
11:32 Feature #988 (Resolved): Makefile: install target for cocoa5: I have opted to use a symbolic link from @/usr/local/bin/cocoa5@ to the actual script which does the work (_e.g._ @/u... John Abbott

23:35 Bug #755: Find out how to compile statically on linux: I have built what seems to be a portable 32-bit executable of @CoCoAInterpreter@ on the Linux VM (on my old MacBook).... John Abbott
21:23 Feature #988 (In Progress): Makefile: install target for cocoa5: I now think that it might be simpler to make @/usr/local/bin/cocoa5@ a (symbolic?) link to @/usr/local/bin/cocoa-5.1.... John Abbott
21:13 Feature #988: Makefile: install target for cocoa5: I have just checked in a first attempt at making an @install@ target for CoCoA-5.
Currently the destination director... John Abbott
07:42 Design #989: init file obligatory?: When I added @init.cocoa5@ I did not consider the possibility of calling cocoa passing explicitely an empty directory... Anna Maria Bigatti
07:34 Design #989: init file obligatory?: John Abbott wrote:
> In my tree @init.cocoa5@ contains 9 lines, but only 2 (or perhaps 3) actually do anything usefu... Anna Maria Bigatti

23:23 Design #989: init file obligatory?: The critical section of source code appears to be around line 126 of @Main.C@.
(call to @perror@)
John Abbott
23:12 Design #989: init file obligatory?: In my tree @init.cocoa5@ contains 9 lines, but only 2 (or perhaps 3) actually do anything useful.
I suggest keepin... John Abbott
23:10 Design #989: init file obligatory?: I found this while trying to create a "quick start" CoCoA-5 by giving it an empty directory as the place to look for ... John Abbott
23:04 Design #989 (In Progress): init file obligatory?: Currently the @CoCoAInterpreter@ requires that there be a file @init.cocoa5@ in the same directory as the packages.
... John Abbott
23:19 Bug #755: Find out how to compile statically on linux: Has the blas-free version been put on the website?
John Abbott
23:17 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website): The instructions for installing CoCoA-5 on linux still need improvement!
* what to do with the file @cocoa-XYZ.tar... John Abbott
18:32 Feature #988: Makefile: install target for cocoa5: This will be a little complicated because we need to install both the executable and the packages, and also tell the ... John Abbott
18:19 Feature #988 (Closed): Makefile: install target for cocoa5: Zoltan kovacs would like to install both CoCoALib and CoCoA-5.
Currently the @install@ target in the Makefile instal... John Abbott

13:52 Support #985: Microsoft (Windows 10, maybe other versions): more help for installation: Ablamovicz's email was sent on 2016-11-28.
It might be enough to supply a simple *@example.cocoa5@* file which can... John Abbott
13:48 Support #985 (New): Microsoft (Windows 10, maybe other versions): more help for installation: Recently Rafal Ablamowicz reported problems with installing CoCoA-5 (with emacs) on a windows 10 computer.
He had ... John Abbott

18:08 Design #984: GroebnerFanIdeals: order matrices sometimes have "large" entries: I noticed that in this example the order matrices always have strictly positive entries in the first row. Are zeroes... John Abbott
18:02 Design #984: GroebnerFanIdeals: order matrices sometimes have "large" entries: Here is the same example as in issue #973... John Abbott
17:51 Design #984 (New): GroebnerFanIdeals: order matrices sometimes have "large" entries: After using @GroebnerFanIdeals@, I noticed that some order matrices can have quite "large" entries (_e.g._ greater th... John Abbott
17:46 Design #917: CallOnGroebnerFanIdeals: better to use an iterator (or a "stream"): After recently delving into the source code for the interpreter to handle interrupts as I'd originally intended, I am... John Abbott

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