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22 Feb 2017

16:16 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual

I have added some hasty tutorials... no doubt it is clear that they have been hastily written. John Abbott

21 Feb 2017

14:22 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual

There is less than a week to go to the mini-course. It would be nice to make some progress with the tutorials.
John Abbott

20 Feb 2017

16:40 Feature #1012: Chebyshev polynomials

The functions have existed for some time, but have never been documented.
Also compare speed of CoCoALib impl with... John Abbott

16:39 Feature #1012 (Closed): Chebyshev polynomials

There is a CoCoA-5 package called @chebyshev.cpkg5@.
There are also CoCoALib fns for computing the chebyshev polynom... John Abbott

16:20 Feature #1011: Random seed fn

An interactive CoCoA-5 session will always generate the same sequence of (pseudo-)random numbers.
In CoCoA-4 there w... John Abbott

16:16 Feature #1011 (Closed): Random seed fn

CoCoA-4 has a @Seed@ fn for resetting the global random number generator.
Make it (or something equivalent) availa... John Abbott

14 Feb 2017

18:08 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

Checked-in an update to all Makefiles. Hope it works -- I did mess some things up :-(
John Abbott

13 Feb 2017

18:32 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

John Abbott wrote:
> Should the file @examples/index.html@ be included in the distribution?
> In other words, shoul... Anna Maria Bigatti

18:24 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

Should the file @examples/index.html@ be included in the distribution?
In other words, should @make distclean@ delet... John Abbott

18:22 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

It seems that the dependencies (in @src/AlgebraicCore/@) are rebuilt whenever @include/CoCoA/library.H@ changes, and ... John Abbott

17:56 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

John Abbott wrote:
> I'm still undecided where the dependency files should fit into this scheme; internal dependenci... Anna Maria Bigatti

17:52 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

I have read through the GNU guidelines. Following them all would be quite hard work.
The "cleaning" targets which w... John Abbott

03 Feb 2017

23:03 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

If we regard the "compiled" documentation files as part of the standard distribution (which is probably a very reason... John Abbott

17:00 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

I have a first implementation, but will refrain from checking in until I have done some more tests (over the weekend?... John Abbott

15:35 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

There are some (GNU) guidelines here:... John Abbott

15:26 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

What does *@make clean@* do? And what should it do?
It seems that it does exactly what I want... (now that I hav... John Abbott

15:12 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

Another candidate for the name: *@halfclean@*
John Abbott

11:36 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

What purpose does the file @wordlist.txt@ serve? Is it used just by the Emacs interface? If so, shouldn't it be in ... John Abbott

02 Feb 2017

22:27 Feature #1007: (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

I found that the targets for building the CoCoA-5 documentation *always* rebuild it even when it's not necessary. I ... John Abbott

18:00 Feature #1007 (In Progress): (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

What should such a target be called? It should delete those files which depend on the platform (_i.e._ compiled code... John Abbott

17:38 Feature #1007 (Closed): (makefile) New "clean" target which does not clean documentation

Since the problem with external dependencies seem to be mostly associated with the documentation, it would be helpful... John Abbott

17:41 Support #1006 (In Progress): External dependencies for building

I failed to install LaTeX on the netbook :-( John Abbott

16:29 Support #1006: External dependencies for building

Can we make it simpler? Reduce the dependencies on external software?
What do we need java for?
John Abbott

16:28 Support #1006 (In Progress): External dependencies for building

I am trying to build and install CoCoA-5 from source on a "bare-bones" Linux box.
It is proving to be quite tedious ... John Abbott

30 Jan 2017

07:53 Feature #737: Elementary transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, log, exp)

I have a package myself called @taylor@.
Maybe I could show it to you and decide. Anna Maria Bigatti

27 Jan 2017

15:59 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)

Think about the following valid CoCoA-5 code:... John Abbott

15:44 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)

The following works:... John Abbott

08:04 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)

This, not surprisingly, doesn't work ;-)... Anna Maria Bigatti

15:54 Feature #1003 (In Progress): New syntax for creating poly rings?

I do not believe that there will be ambiguity: consider the expression *@OBJ[string]@*
* if *@OBJ@* is a record the... John Abbott

07:42 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?

Remember the syntax @NewPolyRing(QQ, "x,y,z");@. That's very expressive!
Anna Maria Bigatti

07:40 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?

Neat idea, but I think we would still have the ambiguity between:
@K["x"]@ and @F["factors"]@ for records (very usef... Anna Maria Bigatti

15:50 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"

Is it possible to make links/references from normal manual pages to/from the page about CoCoA commands?
I note that ... John Abbott

07:51 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"

(I thought I had already replied on this one, strange...)
As is (think of the pdf version), the manual only knows ... Anna Maria Bigatti

15:46 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual

Anna would you be willing to help me propel this issue forwards over the next month.
The minicourse will be on 27+28... John Abbott

07:53 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual

John Abbott wrote:
> Here is a proposal for how we could organize tutorials as manual pages in CoCoA-5.
> Tutorial ... Anna Maria Bigatti

08:05 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis

Asking for approval: is this name ok?
Anna Maria Bigatti

26 Jan 2017

00:49 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?

One problem it does not solve is how to write something like @QQ[alpha]/(alpha^2-2)@ since we cannot create the ideal... John Abbott

00:46 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?

Some advantages are:
* do not need operator *@::=@* to introduce special syntax (valid only in a special context)
*... John Abbott

00:40 Feature #1003 (In Progress): New syntax for creating poly rings?

Here is an idea which could make creating poly rings a "normal case" rather than a "special case".
Instead of havi... John Abbott