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From 09 Oct 2019 to 07 Nov 2019
07 Nov 2019
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20:17 Feature #1358: Emacs UI: should active input line be cleared before sending line from CoCoA-5 file?
- I noticed quite a lot of "almost duplication" in the *@cocoa5.el@* file. We should try to reduce that: more work for...
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- I have a first version which seems to work: after *@(goto (point-max))@* I have inserted *@(move-beginning-of-line ni...
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- I think it is probably a good idea to clear the last line (assuming this can be done reasonably easily in emacs).
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30 Oct 2019
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- This slug still exists: on my current machine, top reports that CoCoA-5 is using 13Gbyte of memory. The computation ...
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- When using the Emacs UI, possibly confusing problems can arise if the user has started to type some input in the exec...
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- I have compiled CoCoA-5 (current CVS) on my little 32-bit netbook (with @readline@ but no other extlibs). Compilatio...
29 Oct 2019
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- The usual trick to ensure that header files are read only once is to define a CPP variable the first time the header ...
26 Oct 2019
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09:53 Bug #1325 (Closed): Emacs UI: emacs does not recognize "until" as marking the end of a "repeat" block
- tried. works. closed.
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- I have made the changes which I think are right for having *@until@* recognized as an end-keyword.
I have tried to c... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> Mind you, anyone who types in any of the above is just being a vandal (mmm, me too?)
Now cal...
25 Oct 2019
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- Added sleep to ConfigEmacs mac and linux
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- updated accordingly the scripts in @release-files/@
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- Good point! I think we should set the same timings in the installation script (for Mac it's called @ConfigEmacs@)
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- One could argue that this is relatively unimportant for normal users (_i.e._ those who download CoCoA-5) since they _...
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- A slightly previous version of the script would sleep for 1 sec, print error mesg, sleep for 1 sec, then exit.
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- The usual way to start CoCoA-5 is to run the script *@cocoa5@*.
This script runs some quick basic checks then call... -
- I now see that in *@cocoa5.el@* there are two very similar constants: *@cocoa5-endkeywords-list@* and *@cocoa5-end-bl...
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- I think I may have solved this (without actually understanding what the emacs-lisp code does).
I have changed the ... -
- Here is a test case:...
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- I have tried some more tests. Mostly it seems OK, but it is possible to confuse the parser:...
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- I was surprised by the following line in @points.cpkg5@...
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- I noticed some old code in *@points.cpkg@* which does not work in CoCoA-5.
In any case, most functions in that pac... -
- I have added *@<=@* and *@>@* and *@>=@* to the list at the top of the page.
I also noticed that there appears to ... -
- The first time I use the online manual in CoCoA-5, I always get a warning about the *@operators, shortcuts@* page bei...
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- Here is a command for finding lines which contain commands like *@A := A + blah@* or some other operator -- it does f...
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- One big advantage of rejecting the idea of introducing *@+=@* and friends is that there would be no need to fiddle ar...
24 Oct 2019
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- CVS-ed. Also CoCoA-5 tests pass :-)
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- Not really sure how to do this cleanly, so I have "hacked" the class @Token@ in @Lexer.H@ (near line 243) by adding a...
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- Oh, that is strange.
I suppose the parser thinks that @10 x@ is more likely a typo for @10*x@, but that @10 3@ is pr... -
- I recovered the check on 32/64 bits for linux even though we no longer distribute 32-bit.
(but this way the user get...
23 Oct 2019
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- I made a new release for mac and for linux on the webpage.
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- Done, I believe.
Now testing comes.
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- I have updated the release-* scripts for Linux, Mac and Microsoft.
CVS-ed.
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- I have noticed that @cocoa5-linux@ still includes the trick for choosing between 32-bit and 64-bit executables. Isn'...
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- The bug the student had found had been fixed (ages ago?) in our "private" version of @cocoa5@, but the change was nev...
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- A student today reported a problem with CoCoA-5 on her Mac: we released a "bad" version of the @cocoa5@ start-up scri...
22 Oct 2019
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21 Oct 2019
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- Here is an example which shows that @RationalSolve@ can be unreasonably slow:...
17 Oct 2019
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- Some obsolescent functions have been so for a long time.
Clean out some of the oldest ones (for 5.3.0).
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Perhaps the criterion in comment 3 should consider only those indets which actually appear in t...
16 Oct 2019
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- I have just run the test given in comment 2; now only the first one evals its arg twice.
Is this easy to fix?
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- This issue has been lingering for years. Now it is marked as *urgent* (so moving it back to target 5.3.0).
*Anna* n... -
- The CoCoA-5 manual page has already been fixed.
I have just modified @BuiltinFunction-CoCoALib.C@ so that an error... -
- I have just tried a quick test: it is a bit surprising that the resulting strings are different...
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- Apparently I checked this in some time ago -- I suppose not long after the previous comment (5 months ago).
Maybe ...
15 Oct 2019
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- John Abbott wrote:
> My simple idea was just to add say 0.1 to the actual measured time: if minpoly is fast,
> this...
14 Oct 2019
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- I have just tried modifying the code, but *it does not work as expected.*
In @SparsePolyOps-Ideal0Dim.C@ around l... -
- We have another funny problem: @MinPoly@ is too fast ;-)
The timeout for @GBasis@ depends only on the time spent in ... -
- Not quite :-/
there is still something dodgy:... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> Should we postpone this issue to the release after 5.3.0?
I think we should aim at 5.3.0.
I...
11 Oct 2019
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- Should we postpone this issue to the release after 5.3.0?
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- I have revised the title since we changed the planned version number ;-)
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- Running the example on the man page for @StandardInput@ is definitely a problem. I do not know how to fix this (othe...
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- It would be good to close this soon.
We should test it on the 3 usual platforms: GNU/Linux seems OK to me, Mac? M... -
- I think this has already been done. Changed status to "resolved".
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- This was actually fixed some time ago; I just forgot to tell redmine.
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- I have renamed @jacobian@ to @JacobianMat@; @jacobian@ is now in obsolescent (both for CoCoA-5 and CoCoALib).
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Not really related: there is a function *@jacobian@* which returns the jacobian matrix. Should... -
- I have changed the CoCoA-5 manual to use the new name. There was no need to change any tests.
Also added @Sylvest... -
- Not really related: there is a function *@jacobian@* which returns the jacobian matrix. Should it be called *@Jacobi...
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- What should @SylvesterMat@ do if one of the args is 0?
An error must be signalled, but how?
Currently the error is ... -
- I have now made the impl in C++; more or less a straight copy of the CoCoA-5 code.
It seems to work (on 2 simple e...
10 Oct 2019
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- The power of the new string syntax: can be defined in one line, and the strings are evaluated in the appropriate ring...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> To see an example of inconsistency, just type *@?:@* into CoCoA. This gives the page for infix... -
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- Still no reaction. Anyway, there is a test in @exbugs.cocoa5@. So we can close.
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- One "advantage" of @BlaBlaVector@ and @BlaBlaList@ is that it help reminds the programmer that indices in the first c...
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- what about @RingElems(ring, string)@?
Similar to @RingElem(ring, string)@... or too similar?
One thing I do not l... -
- reminder: choose name and write doc for cocoa-5
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- For the moment called (also in CoCoA) @ReadExprVector(ring, string)@.
Example @ReadExprVector(R, "x-1, y^3-2, x*z")@... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> This fn should be in CoCoALib!
> Move it there and change its name; and put @sylvester@ into o... -
- This fn should be in CoCoALib!
Move it there and change its name; and put @sylvester@ into obsolescent. Change the ... -
- I vote for @SylvesterMat@
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- Here are some questions:
* roughly how long might it take to resurrect it?
* could it be easily translated into C++... -
- yes, fixed.
I wonder if I should resurrect this package...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> I now see that the errors reported in the examples about hyperplane arrangements are intentiona...
09 Oct 2019
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- I now see that the errors reported in the examples about hyperplane arrangements are intentional; _i.e._ the example ...
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- Here is a quick summary of the problems with MaxExamples@ (after I have already fixed a few)
*NOTE*: I do not have ... -
- I have just run @make ManExamples@, and there are some problems.
Fix them.
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- A simple approach would be to have either a manual page about contributors, or a function which prints out some infor...
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- I think I've done it. ... after lots of tedious little mistakes!
Called @ReadExprVector(ring, string)@ in @RingEl...
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